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Barracks are buildings used to accommodate military personnel and quasi-military personnel such as police. The English word originates from the 17th century via French and Italian from an old Spanish word barraca 'soldier's tent', [1] but today barracks are usually permanent buildings.
The Vancouver Barracks was the first United States Army base located in the Pacific Northwest, established in 1849, in what is now contemporary Vancouver, Washington. [2] It was built on a rise 20 feet (6.1 m) above the Fort Vancouver fur trading station established by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC).
Carlisle Barracks is a United States Army facility located in Pennsylvania, with a Carlisle post office address and with a portion in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The site of the U.S. Army War College , it is the nation's second-oldest active military base.
The United States Disciplinary Barracks (USDB), colloquially known as Leavenworth, is a military correctional facility [2] located on Fort Leavenworth, a United States Army post in Kansas. It is one of two major prisons built on Fort Leavenworth property, the other is the military Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility , which opened on 5 ...
Schofield Barracks is a United States Army installation and census-designated place (CDP) located in Honolulu and in the Wahiawa District of the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi. Schofield Barracks lies adjacent to the town of Wahiawā , separated from most of it by Lake Wilson (also known as Wahiawā Reservoir ).
The Jefferson Barracks Military Post is located on the Mississippi River at Lemay, Missouri, south of St. Louis. It was an important and active U.S. Army installation from 1826 through 1946. It is the oldest operating U.S. military installation west of the Mississippi River, and it is now used as a base for the Army and Air National Guard .
Dempsey Barracks, named after General Sir Miles Dempsey, having served as an artillery barracks since the 1960s, [25] was home to 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards from 2007 until summer 2015, when the barracks were handed over to 1st Armoured Medical Regiment. [26] 1st Armoured Medical Regiment also returned to the UK in 2019. [21]
Junior soldiers from the Lowland Brigade moved from Glencorse to Gordon Barracks on the same day. The barracks closed to Junior Soldier training in 1986. [1] Gordon Barracks are now used by a variety of organisations, including Army Reserve infantry, signals and medical units, and Royal Marines Reserve. [5]