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Fort Ord is a former United States Army post on Monterey Bay on the Pacific Ocean coast in California, which closed in 1994 due to Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) action. . Most of the fort's land now makes up the Fort Ord National Monument, managed by the United States Bureau of Land Management as part of the National Conservation Lands, while a small portion remains an active military ...
Fort Ord was an Army Base founded in 1917 on Monterey Bay of the Pacific Ocean coast in California. Fort Ord closed in 1994 by the Base Realignment and Closure act and is now the Fort Ord National Monument. In 1940 a 1,500-foot hard-surface runway was built at the Fort, just south of the main base. The single wide runway ran west/east and was ...
Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) [1] [2] was a process [3] by a United States federal government commission [4] to increase the efficiency of the United States Department of Defense by coordinating the realignment and closure of military installations following the end of the Cold War.
— Fort Ord, a decommissioned U.S. Army base in Central California, was polluted with toxic chemicals that leached into the groundwater and eventually the base’s drinking water. The CDC’s ...
The commission was established to review the Defense Secretary's list of bases submitted to Congress on April 12, 1991. The seven commissioners and their staff held 28 hearings across the country, visited 47 military installations, and met hundreds of representatives of the surrounding communities.
6252nd U.S. Army Hospital at Fort Ord, California (2014) [146] 6253rd U.S. Army Hospital at Fort Carson , Colorado (2014) [ 146 ] The United States Army Reserve maintained these Table of Distribution and Allowances (TDA) hospitals, designed to augment 'existing Army hospitals' in the event of war. [ 147 ]
In 1986, KKDA started promoting a weekly series of blues concerts in Fort Worth, inviting listeners from across North Texas to come to “Fort Party Worth” and “Funky Town.” A nickname was born.
Caribbean Flamingos stayed close to their nesting grounds during the total solar eclipse at the Fort Worth Zoo in Fort Worth, Texas, Monday Apr 08, 2024. (Special to the Star-Telegram Bob Booth)