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Buckner Hall at Fort McClellan in 2014. Fort McClellan, originally Camp McClellan, is a decommissioned United States Army post located adjacent to the city of Anniston, Alabama. During World War II, it was one of the largest U.S. Army installations, training an estimated half-million troops.
The Alabama Military Academy is a National Guard officer candidate training school [clarification needed] located at the Fort McClellan Army National Guard Training Center in Fort McClellan, Alabama. [1] [2] It was established in 1957 and has the motto "It shall be done." [1] The training center celebrated Fort McClellan's 100th anniversary in ...
Fort McClellan Post Cemetery is one of 21 American cemeteries listed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as containing interments of prisoners of war (POW) for one, or both, world conflicts. Twenty-one VA cemeteries contain the remains of more than 1,000 World War II POWs; two more also contain the remains of World War I POWs. [4]
The Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge is a 9,016-acre (36 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge located in northeastern Alabama near the city of Anniston on the former site of Fort McClellan. Its name comes from some of the last remaining montane longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) ecosystem in the southeastern United States which the refuge ...
IRTCs included Fort McClellan in Alabama, Camp Roberts in California, Camp Blanding in Florida, Camp Wheeler in Georgia, and Camp Fannin, Camp Howze, and Fort Wolters in Texas. The Field Artillery Replacement Center was located at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and was commanded by Ralph McT. Pennell. [3]
From 1975 to 1999, the airfield was used for defensive driving training by the Military Police School at Fort McClellan. Although unused, aerial imagery showed that the runways were intact in 2006. As of 2021, Google satellite imagery shows construction crews demolishing the runways of the air field.
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Camp McClellan may refer to: Camp McClellan (California) , a post in California in 1861 during the American Civil War Camp McClellan, original name of Fort McClellan , a United States Army installation located adjacent to the city of Anniston, Alabama