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The U.S. military maintains hundreds of installations, both inside the United States and overseas (with at least 128 military bases located outside of its national territory as of July 2024). [2] According to the U.S. Army, Camp Humphreys in South Korea is the largest overseas base in terms of area. [3]
The United States Army maintains various aircraft and support facilities, including airfields, even after the creation of the United States Air Force as a separate service branch in 1947. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
Military installations of the United States Army. Including: current/former United States Army bases and stations, and the buildings/structures used at their military installations; and related civilian research/support and defense contractor facilities.
This is a list of current formations of the United States Army, which is constantly changing as the Army changes its structure over time. Due to the nature of those changes, specifically the restructuring of brigades into autonomous modular brigades, debate has arisen as to whether brigades are units or formations; for the purposes of this list, brigades are currently excluded.
See Category:Military installations of NATO. Headquarters SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe) in Casteau, north of Mons (), since 1966 (before in Paris).SHAPE is since 2003 the headquarters of Allied Command Operations (ACO) controlling all allied operations worldwide.
The number of active duty Air Force Bases within the United States rose from 115 in 1947 to peak at 162 in 1956 before declining to 69 in 2003 and 59 in 2020. This change reflects a Cold War expansion, retirement of much of the strategic bomber force, and the post–Cold War draw-down.
An overseas military base is a military base that is geographically located outside of the territory of the country whose armed forces are the principal occupants of the base. Such bases may be established by treaties between the governing power in the host country and another country which needs to establish the military base in the host ...
Joint Base Andrews; Joint Base Balad; Joint Base Charleston; Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson; Joint Base Langley–Eustis; Joint Base Lewis–McChord; Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst; Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall; Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam; Joint Base San Antonio; Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek–Fort Story