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There are nine major U.S. military bases that were formerly named in honor of Confederate military leaders, all in former Confederate States. All were renamed in 2023: Fort Benning (1917), near Columbus, Georgia , named for Confederate General Henry L. Benning , was redesignated Fort Moore on 11 May 2023 in honor of General Hal Moore and his ...
Joint Base San Antonio – located 8 kilometers (5 miles) north of San Antonio, Texas. Joint Base Langley-Eustis – located 12 kilometers (8 miles) east of Newport News, Virginia. Joint Region Marianas – combines Naval Base Guam, Andersen Air Force Base and Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz. Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall – located 1 kilometer ...
Tsuiki Air Base, Japan (Closed 1957) Wake Island Airfield, Wake Island, US Minor Outlying Islands (Transferred to US Army, 1993) Yechon Air Base, Republic of Korea (Closed 1975) Yozadake Air Station, Japan (Closed 1973) * In 1992 the US government changed the status of three US air bases in South Korea.
Fort Lewis is a United States Army base located 9.1 miles (14.6 km) south-southwest of Tacoma, Washington. Fort Lewis was merged with McChord Air Force Base on February 1, 2010, to form Joint Base Lewis–McChord . Fort Lewis, named after Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, was one of the largest and most modern military ...
Fort Hawkins, open to the public. Fort James Jackson, open to the public. Fort King George, open to the public. Fort McAllister, open to the public. Fort McPherson. Fort Moore, closed to the public. Fort Pulaski, open to the public. Fort Scott. Fort Stewart, closed to the public.
The Raven Rock Mountain Complex ( RRMC ), also known as Site R, is a U.S. military installation with an underground nuclear bunker near Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, at Raven Rock Mountain that has been called an "underground Pentagon ". [3] [4] [5] : 2 The bunker has emergency operations centers for the United States Army, Navy, Air Force ...
The United States Army Military District of Washington ( MDW) is one of nineteen major commands of the United States Army. Its headquarters are located at Fort Lesley J. McNair in Washington, D.C. The missions of the units in the Military District of Washington include ceremonial tasks as well as a combat role in the defense of the National ...
Fort Lesley J. McNair, also historically known as the Washington Arsenal, is a United States Army post located on the tip of Buzzard Point, the peninsula that lies at the confluence of the Potomac River and the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C. To the peninsula's west is the Washington Channel, while the Anacostia River is on its south side.