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Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Georgia (U.S. state) (28 P) Pages in category "Military installations in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
Robins Air Force Base (IATA: WRB, ICAO: KWRB) is a major United States Air Force installation located in Houston County, Georgia, United States.The base is located just east of the city of Warner Robins, 18 mi (29 km) south-southeast of Macon and approximately 100 mi (160 km) south-southeast of Atlanta, Georgia.
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]
Most US states do not have active Marine Corps bases; however, many do have reserve bases and centers. In addition, the Marine Corps Security Force Regiment maintains Marines permanently at numerous naval installations across the United States and abroad.
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.
NAS Atlanta is also the site of the Navy Lake Site, a military recreation area open to active, reserve, and retired military, located in a 25-acre (100,000 m 2) park on Lake Allatoona reservoir. Not to be outdone, the Army has its own Lake Allatoona Army Recreation Area, an 85-acre (340,000 m 2 ) resort on another part of the same lake at ...
Georgia: 2009 Realigned to the Georgia Army National Guard as General Lucius D. Clay National Guard Center [60] Naval Air Station Banana River: Cocoa Beach: Florida: 1947 Realigned to the US Air Force as Patrick Air Force Base and then transferred to the US Space Force as Patrick Space Force Base in 2020. [61] Naval Air Station Barbers Point ...
Fort Eisenhower, formerly known as Fort Gordon and Camp Gordon, is a United States Army installation established southwest of Augusta, Georgia in October 1941. It is the current home of the United States Army Signal Corps, United States Army Cyber Command, and the Cyber Center of Excellence as well as the National Security Agency/Central Security Service' Georgia Cryptologic Center (NSA ...