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Camp Dawson is a West Virginia Army National Guard facility in Preston County, West Virginia. It is one of a handful of dedicated military posts operated by the West Virginia National Guard (as opposed to smaller armories), houses the West Virginia Army National Guard's officer candidate school, and is a Delta Force training base.
Army Airfields. Site history. Built. 1940-1944. In use. 1940-present. During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in West Virginia for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers. Most of these airfields were under the command of First Air Force or the Army Air Forces Training ...
Built by. United States Army. In use. 1942–1997. Demolished. 1999. Vint Hill Farms Station ( VHFS) was a United States Army and National Security Agency (NSA) signals intelligence and electronic warfare facility located in Fauquier County, Virginia, near Warrenton. VHFS was closed in 1997 and the land was sold off in 1999.
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 Belvoir. / 38.719737°N 77.154582°W / 38.719737; -77.154582. Fort Belvoir ( / ˈbɛlvwɑːr / BEL-vwar) is a United States Army installation and a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. It was developed on the site of the former Belvoir plantation, seat of the prominent Fairfax family for whom ...
The West Virginia Air National Guard is the state's air force militia. It is part of both the United States Air Force and the West Virginia National Guard. The West Virginia Air National Guard was officially federally recognized on March 7, 1947, as the 167th Fighter Squadron, based at Kanawha Airport in Charleston.
Category. : Military installations in West Virginia. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Military facilities in West Virginia. This category is for all current and historic military facilities located in the State of West Virginia .
Fort Walker. Mary Edwards Walker, first woman Army surgeon and Medal of Honor recipient. Eponym for Fort Walker. / 38.11778°N 77.27639°W / 38.11778; -77.27639. Fort Walker, [ 8] formerly Fort A.P. Hill, is a training and maneuver center belonging to the United States Army located near the town of Bowling Green, Virginia.