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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 ...
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.
Anti-racist agitation in the early 2020s led to calls for changing bases to remove the names of Confederate figures who fought against the Union during the American Civil War. [6] The Naming Commission was created by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, [7] and renaming began in December 2022. [8]
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 ...
Fort Leonard Wood is a U.S. Army training installation located in the Missouri Ozarks. The main gate is located on the southern boundary of the city of St. Robert. The post was created in December 1940 and named in honor of General Leonard Wood (former Chief of Staff) in January 1941. Originally intended to train infantry troops, in 1941 it ...
Fort Hood (1942), in Killeen, Texas, named for Confederate General John Bell Hood, was redesignated Fort Cavazos on 9 May 2023 in honor of General Richard Cavazos [ 19] Fort Lee (1917), in Prince George County, Virginia, named for Confederate General Robert E. Lee, was redesignated Fort Gregg-Adams on 27 April 2023 in honor of Lieutenant ...
In 2022, this Naming Commission recommended changing the names of nine Army bases, two Navy ships, and other items. [99] Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin pledged to follow the commission's recommendations. [18] In May 2022, the first part of the Naming Commission's report recommended changing the names of nine Army bases:
Camp Taylor, Louisville. Coordinates: 38.19560°N 85.71550°W. Panorama view of Camp Zachary Taylor circa 1918. Camp Taylor is a neighborhood and former military base six miles southeast of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, United States. First announced on June 11, 1917, it was originally a military camp named for former president Zachary Taylor.