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NASA scientists found Camp Century, an abandoned Cold War military base, during a flight to map the Greenland Ice Sheet.
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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]
Camp Century was an Arctic United States military scientific research base in Greenland, [1] situated 240 km (150 mi) east of Pituffik Space Base.When built, Camp Century was publicized as a demonstration for affordable ice-cap military outposts and a base for scientific research.
See Category:Military installations of NATO. Headquarters SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe) in Casteau, north of Mons (), since 1966 (before in Paris).SHAPE is since 2003 the headquarters of Allied Command Operations (ACO) controlling all allied operations worldwide.
[4] [5] The radar and air base at Thule had been active since 1951. Camp Century was described at the time as a demonstration of affordable ice-cap military outposts. The secret Project Iceworm was to be a system of tunnels 4,000 kilometres (2,500 mi) in length, used to deploy up to 600 nuclear missiles, that would be able to reach the Soviet ...
The troops are part of a contingent of 650 Marines staging a recent joint military exercise with 3,000 soldiers from their fellow NATO member, Norway, at a time when both NATO and Russia have ...
The Station was built in 1957 to support the Distant Early Warning Line as Icy Cape (LIZ-B). The station was logistically supported by the 711th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron based at Cape Lisburne Air Force Station, although Icy Cape was operated by civilian contract workers. It was closed in 1963 and has been abandoned ever since.