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Military organizations of all types must support a wide range of administrative functions including personnel management, accounting, and procurement. Some facilities are quite similar to civilian office buildings while others are converted from other military uses and can be quite idiosyncratic.
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.
A military base is a facility directly owned and operated by or for the military or one of its branches that shelters military equipment and personnel, and facilitates training and operations. [1] A military base always provides accommodations for one or more units , but it may also be used as a command center , training ground or proving ground .
A Dictionary of Military Architecture: Fortification and Fieldworks from the Iron Age to the Eighteenth Century by Stephen Francis Wyley, drawings by Steven Lowe; Victorian Forts glossary Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. A more comprehensive version has been published as A Handbook of Military Terms by David Moore at the same site
The Kansas Army National Guard armory in Concordia, Kansas is a typical building used for the National Guard programs in the United States.. A National Guard Armory, National Guard Armory Building, or National Guard Readiness Center [note 1] is any one of numerous buildings of the U.S. National Guard where a unit trains, meets, and parades.
This is a list of military installations owned or used by the United States Armed Forces both in the United States and around the world. This list details only current or recently closed facilities; some defunct facilities are found at Category:Former military installations of the United States .
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View of the Entrance to the Arsenal, by Canaletto, 1732 Cannons and mortars of Napoleon's army exhibited along the wall of the Kremlin Arsenal The Royal Armoury, Leeds Armory of Swiss Guard The Kansas Army National Guard armory in Concordia, Kansas, is a typical building used for the National Guard programs in the United States.