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Fort Campbell is a United States Army installation located astride the Kentucky – Tennessee border between Hopkinsville, Kentucky and Clarksville, Tennessee (post address is located in Kentucky). Fort Campbell is home to the 101st Airborne Division and the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. The fort is named in honor of Union Army ...
2011: 2011 military intervention in Libya: Operation Odyssey Dawn, United States and coalition enforcing U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 with bombings of Libyan forces. 2011: Osama Bin Laden is killed by U.S. military forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan as part of Operation Neptune Spear. 2011: Drone strikes on al-Shabaab militants begin in ...
Fort Knox. / 37.92; -85.96. Fort Knox is a United States Army installation in Kentucky, south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown. It is adjacent to the United States Bullion Depository (also known as Fort Knox), which is used to house a large portion of the United States' official gold reserves, and with which it is often conflated.
March 30, 2023 at 10:44 AM. The two HH60 Black Hawk Helicopters that crashed Wednesday night in Trigg County, causing nine deaths, belonged to a rare military unit that is based in Western ...
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 ...
Fort Leavenworth ( / ˈlɛvənˌwɜːrθ /) is a United States Army installation located in Leavenworth County, Kansas, in the city of Leavenworth. [ 1] Built in 1827, it is the second oldest active United States Army post west of Washington, D.C., and the oldest permanent settlement in Kansas. [ 2] Fort Leavenworth has been historically known ...
Fort Donelson National Battlefield preserves Fort Donelson and Fort Heiman, two sites of the American Civil War Forts Henry and Donelson Campaign, in which Union Army Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant and Flag Officer Andrew Hull Foote captured three Confederate forts and opened two rivers, the Tennessee River and the Cumberland River, to control by the Union Navy.
Clark County and Madison County: James Estill (1750–82), military captain killed at the Battle of Little Mountain: 13,936: 254 sq mi (658 km 2) Fayette County: 067: Lexington: 1780: Kentucky County: Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette (1757–1834), French-born Revolutionary War general 320,154: 284 sq mi (736 km 2) Fleming County: 069 ...