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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 BRAC had to responsibility of selecting which bases were to close throughout four rounds of base closures. Even though these BRAC actions represented a large amount of physical reductions in installations and associated units, the DoD continued to request more infrastructure cuts to offset reduced congressional funding for defense.
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.
Born in 1894, he died on 25 May 1936 when his Consolidated P-30 which he was flight testing crashed near Centerville, Ohio. [2] In 1986, the U.S. Air Force established the McClellan Aviation Museum on what was then McClellan Air Force Base. The museum was later chartered by the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
Aug. 5—Construction crews broke ground on new barracks at Fort McClellan Training Center last week, the start of a $31 million modernization project. The new construction will replace 15 World ...
Although the chemical school was established in 1951, it became a permanent fixture at Fort McClellan from 1979 to the late 1990s. Fort McClellan was identified for closure by the 1995 Base Realignment and Closure Commission. In 1998, the plan to establish a federally operated site to train civilian emergency responders was put into motion ...
It was 1973, and Grapevine Mayor William Tate was 31 and the Metroplex was home to the new Dallas/Fort Worth Airport. Tate boarded a plane with other officials from Tarrant County and took flight.
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]