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The Camp Lejeune water contamination problem occurred at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina, from 1953 to 1987. [1] During that time, United States Marine Corps (USMC) personnel and families at the base bathed in and ingested tap water contaminated with harmful chemicals at all concentrations from 240 to 3,400 times ...
Cold-weather warfare, also known as arctic warfare or winter warfare, encompasses military operations affected by snow, ice, thawing conditions, or cold, both on land and at sea, as well as the strategies and tactics used by military forces in these situations and environments. Cold-weather conditions occur year-round at high elevation or ...
Williams Air Force Base. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Wurtsmith Air Force Base. Categories: Superfund sites. Formerly Used Defense Sites. Military installations of the United States in the United States. Hidden categories: Template Category TOC via Automatic category TOC on category with 101–200 pages.
Fort Greely. Coordinates: 63°58′23″N 145°43′05″W. A Ground-Based Interceptor, designed to destroy incoming ICBMs, is lowered into its silo at the missile defense complex at Fort Greely, July 22, 2004. Fort Greely is a United States Army launch site for anti-ballistic missiles located about 100 miles (160 km) southeast of Fairbanks ...
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 ...
1989 aerial view. Pituffik Space Base (/ b iː d uː ˈ f iː k / bee-doo-FEEK; Greenlandic:) (IATA: THU, ICAO: BGTL), formerly Thule Air Base (/ t uː l iː / or / t uː l eɪ /), is the United States Space Force's northernmost base, and the northernmost installation of the U.S. Armed Forces, located 750 mi (1,210 km) north of the Arctic Circle and 947 mi (1,524 km) from the North Pole on the ...
The Extended Cold Weather Clothing System ( ECWCS / ˈɛkwæks /) is a protective clothing system developed in the 1980s by the United States Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, Natick, Massachusetts. The first generation ECWCS consisted of parka and trousers plus 20 other individual clothing, handwear, headwear ...
Soto Cano Air Base is an Honduran military base 5 mi (8.0 km) to the south of Comayagua in Honduras. It houses 1,200–1,500 U.S. troops and is also used by the Honduran Air Force academy. [2] [3] The airbase became operational in 1940, changing the old location of the Honduras Air Force Academy in Toncontin , Tegucigalpa to Palmerola. [4]