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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 ...
The 1st Infantry Division ( 1ID) is a combined arms division of the United States Army, and is the oldest continuously serving division in the Regular Army. [ 5] It has seen continuous service since its organization in 1917 during World War I. [ 6] It was officially nicknamed "The Big Red One" (abbreviated "BRO" [ 2]) after its shoulder patch ...
Fort Mifflin is still an active base for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and is currently the oldest active U.S. military base and the only base in use that predates the Declaration of Independence. In the late 1970s, the Commandant's House at the Fort was destroyed by an accidental fire started by camping Boy Scouts.
Marine Corps Air Station Miramar ( MCAS Miramar) ( IATA: NKX, ICAO: KNKX, FAA LID: NKX) is a United States Marine Corps installation that is home to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, which is the aviation element of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. It is located in Miramar, a community of San Diego, California, about 14 miles (23 km) north of ...
Smaller numbers of overseas military bases are operated by China, Iran, India, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates . The United States is the largest operator of military bases abroad, with 38 "named bases" [ note 1] with active duty, national guard, reserve, or civilian personnel as of September 30, 2014.
The Mountain Warfare Training Center (MWTC) is a United States Marine Corps installation located in Pickel Meadows in Mono County, California, at 6,800 feet (2,100 m) above sea level in the Toiyabe National Forest, 21 miles (34 km) northwest of Bridgeport, California. The training center exists to train units in complex compartmented terrain.
MacDill Air Force Base ( MacDill AFB) ( IATA: MCF, ICAO: KMCF, FAA LID: MCF) is an active United States Air Force installation located 4 miles (6.4 km) south-southwest of downtown Tampa, Florida . The "host wing" for MacDill AFB is the 6th Air Refueling Wing (6 ARW), assigned to the Eighteenth Air Force of the Air Mobility Command.
Fort Drum. / 44.05417°N 75.78694°W / 44.05417; -75.78694. Fort Drum is a U.S. Army military reservation and a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson County, near the western border of northern New York, United States. The population of the CDP portion of the base was 12,955 at the 2010 census. [ 3]