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CHAPTER 8 PART 3
PRESENT DAY US ARMY FORTS/POSTS IN 1991 S-Z
SACRAMENTO ARMY DEPOT CA:
Established 1942; repairs, rebuilds and fabricates communications-electronics supplies; home of Communication Systems Test Activity, Television-Audio Support Activity; 320 mil, 3,285 civ, 485 acres in southeast Sacramento.
CAMP SANTIAGO PUERTO RICO:
Accommodates brigade-sized or larger units for maneuver and specialized training at Salinas, Puerto Rico.
Camp Santiago, Army National Guard. Camp Santiago is the largest National
Guard training site in the Caribbean and supports training for all Defense
Department military services. there are no permanent residents at Cam
Santiago, though the facility can temporarily house thousands of troops.
ST. LOUIS AREA SUPPORT CENTER IL:
Established 1971 on inactivation of Granite City Army Depot; performs administrative and logistical services for Army Aviation Systems Command and Troop Support Command, both in St. Louis; 40 mil, 40 civ, 895 acres at Granite City, IL, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis Missouri.
SAN ANTONIO ANG
San Antonio TX 744 Military
FORT SAM HOUSTON TEXAS:
Located in historic San Antonio in south central Texas, Fort Sam Houston is the home of
US Army South, Headquarters, Fifth US Army, Army Dental Command,
Army Medical Specialist Corps, Medical command, Army Medical Department Center and School, Health Services Command, Academy of Health Sciences, Brooke Army Medical Center, HQ, 90th Army Reserve Cmd.;
15,587 active duty, 5,653 students; 2,500 family members; 25,371 civ, populate the 28,000 acre post which is surrounded by San Antonio. Approximately 28,000 medical corpsmen and women are trained at the Academy yearly. Established 1876, named after the first president of the Republic of Texas.
Fort Sam Houston TX: US Army Garrison, Army Medical Command, Army Medical Department Center and School,
Defense Medical Research Training Institute, Army Medical Command Health
Care Acquisition Activity and Health Facility Planning Agency, Medical
Information Systems and Services Agency, Institute of Surgical Research and Brooke Army Medical Center, and the 5th US Army.
Fort Sam Houston TX
www.cs.amedd.army.mil
www.samhouston.army.mil
SANDSTON ANG ARMORY
Sandston VA 277 Military
CAMP SAN LUIS OBISPO, ANG
San Luis Obispo,Ca Military 339
SAVANNA ARMY DEPOT ACTIVITY IL:
Established 1917; stores munitions; home of Army Defense Ammunition Center and School; 40 mil, 500 civ, 13,000 acres at Savanna, 150 miles west of Chicago.
Savanna Army Deport Activity to close by September 30, 2000. Army Defense Ammunition Center and School is to move to McAlester Army Ammunition Plant, Okla., by September 30, 1999.
Hawthorne Army Ammunition Plant NV may gain industrial plant equipment storage from Seneca Army Depot Activity NY by September 30, 2000.
McAlester Army Ammunition Plant OK to gain Army Defense Ammunition Center and School from Savanna Army Deport Activity, IL by September 30, 1999.
SEA GIRT, NJ. ANG TRAINING CENTER
Sea Girt NJ 832 Military
SEAGOVILLE ARMY RESERVE CENTER
Seagoville, TX 1,146 Military
SENECA ARMY DEPOT NY:
Established 1941, named for nearby Seneca Lake; receives, stores, issues and maintains munitions and industrial plant equipment; 615 mil, 1,200 civ, 11,000 acres at Romulus, 50 miles southwest of Syracuse.
Seneca Army Depot Activity NY is to close by September 30, 2000. Industrial plant equipment storage may move to Hawthorne Army Ammunition Plant, Nevada. Seneca Army Depot NY
SHARPE ARMY DEPOT CA:
Established 1942, named for Maj. Gen. Henry G. Sharpe, quartermaster general, 1916-1918; supports western United States, Alaska and the Pacific through the testing, repair, storage and shipment of military materiel; 26 mil, 1,216 civ, 724 acres at Lathrop, 60 miles south of Sacramento.
CAMP SHELBY ARMY NATIONAL GUARD TRAINING SITE MS:
Accommodates brigade-sized or larger units for maneuver and specialized training 12 miles south of Hattiesburg,
Ms., on US Highway 49 south.
Army National Guard Training Site, 17th Armored Brigade, 2/87th Training Division, Youth Challenge Program, 108th Training Regiment.
1,442 active duty, 525 family members; 800 guard, 20 reserve; 10 civilians.
Camp Shelby, Army National Guard. Encompassing more than 134,820 acres, Camp
Shelby is the largest state-owned and operated field training site in the
United States. Is is a training ground for the Abrams M1 Tank, Paladin
Howitzers and home to the 3rd Brigade, 87th Division training
Support. Camp Shelby MS
FORT SHERIDAN ILLINOIS:
Known as "The Army's Biggest Little Post," Fort Sheridan was founded in 1887, named for Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, Civil War Union cavalry leader and commanding general of the Army, 1883-1888; It is located on 695 acres on the shore of Lake Michigan, 29 miles north of Chicago loop. The post serves as an Administrative and Logistics Center for Midwest defense installations. It is also home of the Army Recruiting Command, HQ Fourth US Army, US Military Enlistment Processing Command, 425th Trans Bde (USAR), Army Readiness Gp., 4th Recruit Bde and Recruit Bn, Chicago. In all, the Post serves 20 tenant/resident units. Population of 1,350 mil, 1,800 civ.
SIERRA ARMY DEPOT CA:
Established 1942, stores munitions, missiles, war reserves,
1 mil, 592 civ, 36,000 acres at Herlong, CA 60 miles north northwest of Reno, Nevada. Sierra Army Depot, CA to realign by September 30. 2001
www.sierra.army.mil
FORT SILL, OKLAHOMA:
Founded in 1869 as a cavalry post, named for Brig. Gen. Joshua W. Sill, Union commander killed at the battle of Stone River, Tenn., December 1862. Located 90 miles southwest of
Oklahoma City in the heart of Oklahoma's Great Plains, Fort Still today is the Army's Field Artillery Center, Training Command and School, and HQ III Corps Artillery. The Field Artillery School is considered the University of field artillery and is responsible for developing artillery tactics and doctrine as well as training tomorrow field artillery leaders. III Corps Artillery is the largest and most diverse field artillery organization in the Army. Its battalions are equipped with artillery weapons ranging from the 10mm-towed howitzer to the giant Pershing missile. The working military and civilian population of the post is
16,000 active duty; 37,400 family members; 100 guard and reserve; 5,000 civ. Its 94,200 acres lie adjacent to the city of Lawton in southwestern Oklahoma and 90 miles southwest of Oklahoma City.
Army Field Artillery Training Center; Army Field Artillery School; Depth and
Simultaneous Attack Battle Laboratory, Joint Fire and Effects Trainer System
and III Corps Artillery
Fort Sill OK
http://sill-www.army.mil
IKE SKELTON TRAINING AREA, ANG
Jefferson City MO 651 Military
CAMP SMITH, ANG
Cortiandt Manor NY 234 Military
SMYRNA AIRPORT ANG TRAINING SITE
Smyrna, TN 836 Military
FORT SNELLING ARMY RESERVE CENTER
Minneapolis, MN 1,354 Military
SOMERSET ARMY NG ARMORY
Somerset NJ 338 Military
SOUTHFIELD ARMY RESERVE CENTER
Southfield MI 608 Military
W. SILVER SPRING ARMY RESERVE COMPLEXMilwaukee WI 1,187 Military
SPRINGFIELD ARMED FORCES RESERVE CENTERSpringfield MO 413 Military
ST.AUGUSTINE RF ENSSLIN NG ARMORY
St. Augustine FL 651 military
STATEN ISLAND ARMY RESERVE CENTER
Brooklyn NY 659 Military
STEAD FACILITY, ANG
Reno-Stead NV 40 military
FORT STEWART GEORGIA:
The "largest Army post east of the Mississippi." With its 279,000 acres is ideal for large-scale or multi-purpose maneuvers of all kinds. Home of the 3rd Infantry Division and 24th Corps Support Group "Victory" Division (Mech.). Fort Stewart, activated in 1940, named for Brig. Gen. Daniel Stewart, Georgia Militia officer in the Revolutionary War, Next to Hinesville, is just 35 miles southwest of Savannah, Georgia, a charming Southern city of 120,000. Hunter Army Airfield, part of the Fort Stewart complex, is capable of handling any aircraft in inventory. Fort Stewart working population is
20,000 mil, 15,917 active duty, 185 guard; 37,303 family members; 1,511 civ, at Hinesville GA, 41 miles southwest of Savannah GA.
Fort Stewart GA: Headquarters 3rd Inf Div (Mech.) and Fort Stewart, 24th Corps Support Group, and Command Headquarters.
Home of the 3rd Infantry Division "Rock of the Mamel"
Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield GA
www.stewart.army.mil
STEWARD ARMY SUB-POST NY:
Steward Army Sub-post NY is in New Windsor, 60 miles north of New York City off Interstate 87. Major units are HQ, Garrison Command, Military Airlift Group Detachment B (Marines); 105th Airlift Group (Air National Guard); Readiness Group – Stewart; 411th Engineer Brigade. 600 mil, 210 Air Guard, 724 civilians.
Stewart Newburgh Army Reserve Center New Windsor NY l68 Military
FORT STORY VA:
Established 1914, named for Maj. Gen. John Patton Story, former chief of the Artillery School; sub-installation of Fort Eustis, VA; is home for amphibious and logistics-over-the-shore training site for the Active and reserve components;
1,000 active duty; 1,300 family members; 600 reservists; 150 civ, 1,451 acres, 3 miles north of Virginia Beach along the Atlantic Ocean, Fort Story is the lone Army installation in the Norfolk area, the center of a large East Coast Naval complex.
Fort Story VA: Home of the 11th Transportation Bn (Terminal), 7th Transportation Group (Composite), Army reserve 4th Brigade, 80th Division; 18th Field Hospital, Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Training and Evaluation Unit 2, Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 10, Marine Corps Expeditionary Warfare Training Group Atlantic, Amphibious Reconnaissance School.
www.eustis.army.mil/fort-story/
Fort Story VA
STRATFORD ARMY ENGINE PLANT
Stratford Army Engine Plant to close in 1998.4 Military 5 civilians
CAMP SWIFT, ANG TEXAS:
Accommodates brigade-sized or larger units for maneuver and specialized training at Bastrop, Texas.
Camp Swift, Army National Guard. 104 military.
TEANECK ARMY NG ARMORY
Teaneck NJ 375 Military
TEMPLE ANG
Temple TX 371 Military
TOBYHANNA ARMY DEPORT PA:
Established 1953, stores general supplies, repairs and modifies communication-electronics
equipment. Tobyhanna is the Defense Departments largest depot for the
repair, overhaul and integration of command, control, communications,
computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems. 51 mil,
3,685 civ, 120 family members, 1,200 acres at Tobyhanna, 20 miles southeast of Scranton. Tobyhanna Army Depot to gain ground communications workload from McClellan AFB, tactical missile guidance workload from Letterkenny Army Deport by July 2001.
www.tobyhanna.army.mil
TOLEDO AREA ARMY RESERVE
Toledo OH 318 Military
TOOELE ARMY DEPOT, UTAH
Established 1942, performs overhaul of tactical wheeled vehicles, field baking ovens and water purification systems, performs DOD rail overhaul and tire retread work;
1 mil, 542 civ, 44,292 acres near Tooele (Pronounced "Too-ella") 35 miles southwest of Salt Lake City.
Tooele Army Depot is responsible for storing training ammunition and war
reserve ammunition . The Ammunition Equipment Directorate designs and
manufactures ammunition peculiar equipment for all the Defense Departments. http://www.dugway.army.mil
TRENTON AVIATION ANG ARMORY
Trenton NJ 337 Military
TROY ANG ARMORY
Troy NY 500 Military
TULSA ARMY AVIATION SUPPORT FACILITY, ANG
Tulsa OK 338 Military
UMATILLA DEPOT ACTIVITY OR:
Established 1940, named for the Indian tribe; sub-installation of Tooele Army Depot; performs care, preservation, shipping, and maintenance of ammunition and other commodities, 3 mil, 359 civ, 19,729 acres, 11 miles west of Hermiston.
UTAH COUNTY SOUTH ANG ARMORY
Spanish Fork UT 290 Military
UTICA ANG ARMORY
Utica NY 413 Military
VANCOUVER BARRACKS,ARMY RESERVE WA:
Accommodates brigade-sized or larger units for maneuver and specialized training and reserve components post at Vancouver WA. Vancouver Barracks is a sub-installation of Fort Lewis WA.
Vancouver Barracks, Army Reserve 950 military, 4 civilians.
VINT HILL FARMS STATION VA:
Established 1942, named after Vint Hill Estates; HQ, Army Communication-Electronics Activity; 766 mil, 954 civ, 701 acres near Warrenton, 45 miles southwest of Washington D.C. Concepts Analysis Agency, MD, and Security Command.
Vint Hill Farms Station, VA to move into Fort Belvoir post in 1999.
FORT WAINWRIGHT ALASKA:
The Army's northernmost post, Fort Wainwright adjoins the eastern boundary of Fairbanks, Alaska. Construction of the 917,000-acre post began in 1938, renamed after Gen. Jonathan W. Wainwright, hero of Bataan, and today its
4,490 mil, 1,513 civilians; 7,633 family members, population enjoys all the comforts of a modern, fully equipped installation. The climate is moderate in summer, averaging 65 degrees. In winter, below-zero readings are very common. It is the Army's Arctic Mountain Training Center, HQ, 6th Inf Div (Lt.), Combat Aviation Bde, 47th Engineer Bn, and division support command units. Fort Wainwright and Fairbanks, a city of 30,000, are 1,300 air miles from Seattle and 150 miles from the Arctic Circle
Fort Wainwright Alaska to gain Cold Region Test Activity and Northern Warfare Training Center from Fort Greely, Alaska, beginning in 2000.
Fort Wainwright AK: 172nd Striker Brigade Combat Team; 1st Bn 17th Inf, 4th Bn 9th Inf, 4th Bn 11th Field Artillery Regiment, 4th Bn 123rd Aviation, Arctic support Brigade, 46th Support Bn, and Medical Activity-Alaska
and Dental Activity-Alaska, 172nd Striker Brigade Combat Team; 864th Engineer Bn, Cold Region Research and Engineering Lab; Medical Department Activity-Alaska and 203rd Personnel Services Battalion.
Fort Wainwright AK
www.wainwright.army.mil
WALBRIDGE ANG
Walbridge OH 284 Military
WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER WASHINGTON D.C.:
Walter Reed Army Medical Center, named for Maj. Walter Reed, conqueror of yellow fever, admitted its first patients to Walter Reed General Hospital in 1899. Today it is sprawling complex at two major locations. A number of medically related facilities surround the hospital, on the ground of the main post in the northern corner of the District of Columbia near the
Maryland border. The second location is at Forest Glen, Maryland, just inside the beltway ringing the District.
3,214 civilian, 7,870 family members, 3,932 active duty, and 642 reserve personnel are employed at the combined center. Admissions to the hospital reach 19,000 annually; the site is 215 acres (including Forest Glen and Glenhaven housing area) in the District of Columbia.
Walter Reed Army Medical Center: Army Institute of Research to relocate to Forest Glen Annex, MD,
with infectious disease, combat casualty care and operational medicine programs of Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, MD, in 1999.
Walter Reed Army Medical Center Washington DC, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Army Physical disability Agency, Walter Reed Army
Institute of Research, North Atlantic Regional Medical Command, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the Army Office of Defense
Medicine..
Walter Reed Army Medical Center Washington D.C.
www.wramc.amedd.army.mil
F. E. WARREN AIR FORCE BASE:
F.E. Warren AFB is in Cheyenne, WY just off I-25. Air Force Space Command, 20th Air Force, 90th Missile Wing.
3,700 active duty; 5,200 family members, 950 civilians.
F.E. Warren AFB WY
www.Warren.AF.Mil
WASHOE COUNTY COMPLEX, ANG
Reno NV 13 Military
WESLACO ANG
Weslaco TX 587 Military
WATERLOO ARMY NG AVIATION ARMORY
Waterloo, IA 215 Military
WATERVLIET ARSENAL NY:
Established 1813, named from the Dutch for "rolling waters"; conducts research, development and production of artillery weapons;
1 mil, 1,100 civ, 140 acres at Watervliet, 6 miles north of Albany. The
Watervliet is the sole U.S. capability for production quantity manufacture
of large caliber cannon and is the oldest continually active
arsenal.
Watervliet Arsenal NY
www.wva.army.mil
WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION MS:
Established 1929 by the Corps of Engineers; conducts research in hydraulics, soil and rock mechanics and related technologies. 11 mil, 1,600 civ, 685 areas in
Vicksburg, MS
WEST ORANGE ANG ARMORY
West Orange NJ 460 Military
WESTFIELD ANG ARMORY
Westfield NJ 178 Military
U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY WEST POINT NY:
West Point is the home of the United States Army Military Academy. Construction began at this fortress like facility at the command of General George Washington, in 1777, Situated high above the west bank of Hudson River, 50 miles north of New
York City, West Point has produced some of the nation's most famous Army and Air Force officers from its cadet corps. The reservation covers 16,000 acres and has a population of
5,286 Active duty; 2,851 Family members; 2,817 Civilians; 4,123 Cadets, 2 Reserve. It is located 50 miles north of New York City.
U. S. Military Academy West Point NY is home to the Corps of Cadets, 1st Bn and 1st
Infantry. US Military Academy West Point NY
www.usma.edu
WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE NM:
White Sands Missile Range conducts, supports development and test programs, missile and environmental tests for all branches of the Military and for NASA, other government agencies and private industry. It covers 1.9 million acres in south central New Mexico, near both the Texas and Mexican borders, located in the rural Tularosa Basin of south
central New Mexico, with main facilities 26 miles east of Las Cruces, NM, 40 miles north of El Paso, Texas. 439 active duty, 162 reservists; 1,315 family members, 2,841 civ, Personnel test more than 2,000 missiles here each year. The post was established July 9, 1945 and is the birthplace of America's missile and space activity, and the Army's main missile test site, and the Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory.
White Sands Missile Range supports development and test programs for the
Army, Navy, Air Force, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
other government agencies, allied countries and private
industry.
White Sands Missile Range NM
www.wsmr.army.mil/
WILKES-BARRE KINGSTON, ANG
Kingston, PA 519 Military
CAMP W. G. WILLIAMS, UTAH:
Accommodates brigade-sized or larger units of maneuver and specialized training at Salt Lake City, Utah.
WILMINTON ARMY NG
Wilmington DL 300 Military
FORT WINGATE DEPOT ACTIVITY NM:
Established 1870, named after Bvt. Maj. Benjamin Wingate, who died of wounds received at the Battle of Valverde, NM 1862; sub-installation of Tooele Army Deport; stores, ships, renovates ammunition; 2 mil, 180 civ, 22,000 acres, 10 miles east of Gallup.
FORT WOLTERS, ANG
Mineral Wells, TX 104 Military
WORCESTER ARMY RESERVE CENTER
Norristown PA 300 Military
YAKIMA FIRING CENTER WA:
Established 1941; sub-installation of Fort Lewis providing ranges and maneuver areas for Northwest based military units;
100 mil, 300 civ, 261,000 acres, 8 miles northeast of Yakima, 146 miles southeast of Tacoma.
Yakima Training Center.
YUMA PROVING GROUND AZ:
Established 1943, performs desert testing for all types of materiel,
126 military, 525 family members; 664 civ., 1,027 contractors. 1 million acres with main facilities
25 miles northeast of Yuma.
Yuma Proving Ground AZ: Headquarters, Support Troops Yuma Proving Ground, Military Freefall School, and Yuma Proving ground.
Yuma Proving Ground is part of the Army Test and Evaluation Command and
houses the Military Free Fall School and the Special Operations Air Terminal
Attack Course. Yuma Proving Ground AZ
www.yuma.army.mil
The information on this page is as of 2004. If you know of any thing that
has changed since then, like any fort/post closure's, change of mission,
change of units please e-mail me at Lamar@ida.net
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