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A military camp or bivouac is a semi-permanent military base, for the lodging of an army. Camps are erected when a military force travels away from a major installation or fort during training or operations , and often have the form of large campsites .
Rock climber Chuck Pratt bivouacking during the first ascent of the Salathé Wall on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley in September 1961.. A bivouac shelter or bivvy (alternately bivy, bivi, bivvi) is any of a variety of improvised camp site or shelter that is usually of a temporary nature, used especially by soldiers or people engaged in backpacking, bikepacking, scouting or mountain climbing. [1]
A Military Police School, earlier operating at Fort Gordon, Georgia, was officially transferred to Fort McClellan on July 11, 1975. The Military Police School provided training programs in general policing activities, corrections and detention operations, police and criminal intelligence operations, combat support operations, and security.
Camp Las Pulgas, also called 43 Area Camp Pendleton, is subcamp of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. The camp was built during World War II. It was used for training US Marines before departing to the Pacific War and housed them upon their return. The camp had a mix of tents and quonset huts. Las Pulgas is Spanish for The Fleas.
Camp Calvin B. Matthews or Marine Corps Rifle Range Camp Matthews or Marine Corps Rifle Range, La Jolla (prior to World War II) [1] or more simply Camp Matthews was a United States Marine Corps military base from 1917 until 1964, when the base was decommissioned and transferred to the University of California to be part of the new University of California, San Diego campus. [2]
The facility contains fifteen training areas, two bivouac sites for company-sized elements, a land navigation site, a recovery training site, an engineer dig training site, a helipad, and an Engagement Skills Trainer. Ten miles of unmaintained roads are also present on the site to help with training for wheeled and tracked vehicles. [1]
Bivouac is a type of camp or shelter. The term may refer to: Bivouac Peak, a mountain in the Teton Range, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States; A military camp; Bivouac shelter, an extremely lightweight alternative to traditional tent systems; Bivouac (ants), an ant nest constructed out of the living ant worker's own bodies
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 ]