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Fort Wolters U.S. Highway 180 gate in 2018. Fort Wolters was a United States military installation four miles northeast of Mineral Wells, Texas.. The fort was originally named Camp Wolters in honor of Brigadier General Jacob F. Wolters, commander of the 56th Cavalry Brigade of the National Guard, which used the area as a summer training ground. [1]
At the installation, then named Wolters Air Force Base, was housed the newly formed Aviation Engineer Force. Special-category army and air force personnel were trained there. In September 1956 the base became the Primary Helicopter Center directed by the United States Army. In June 1963 it was renamed Fort Wolters. At the time all army rotary ...
The Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) operated the Mineral Wells Pre-Parole Transfer Facility in the Fort Wolters Industrial Park on behalf of the TDCJ. It closed in August 2013. [ 15 ] The correctional facility, which had been operated by CCA since 1995, is located on the property of the former Fort Wolters in Palo Pinto County and in ...
The unit allocated to Texas was fielded as 1st Texas Cavalry Brigade, and commanded by Brigadier General Jacob F. Wolters (namesake of Fort Wolters). The War Department planned to mobilize the brigade for overseas service, but the war ended before training was complete, and soldiers were demobilized in late 1918 and early 1919. [2]
Fort Worth: Texas: 1993 Redesignated as Carswell Air Reserve Station: Carswell Air Reserve Station: Fort Worth: Texas: 1994 Realigned to the US Navy as Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth: Castle Air Force Base: Atwater: California: 1995 Closed Cavalier Air Force Station: Cavalier: North Dakota: 2021 Realigned to the US Space Force ...
Camp Wolters / Fort Wolters Army Heliport (Mineral Wells) Clear Lake Metro Port (Clear Lake City) Clear Lake Ranch Airfield (Mankins) Columbus Municipal Airport (original) Cuero Field / Brayton Flying Field; D-Bar Ranch Airfield (Sanco) Dalhart Aux AAF #1 / West Field; Dalhart Aux AAF #2 / Miller Field
Fort Cavazos: Killeen: Fort Bliss: El Paso: Fort Wolters: Mineral Wells: Naval Air Station Corpus Christi: Corpus Christi: Naval Air Station Kingsville: Kingsville: Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth: Fort Worth: Carswell AFB Grand Prairie Armed Forces Reserve Complex: Grand Prairie: Hensley Field: Grand Prairie Camp Mabry: Austin ...
In 1955 the battalion was withdrawn from the Army Reserve and allotted to the Regular Army. The 864th was reactivated at Wolters Air Force Base, Texas on 25 September 1955. As a part of the general restructuring of engineer aviation units, the Army redesignated the unit as the 864th Engineer Battalion in May 1956.