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Category:Military installations in Alabama. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML. GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) This category is for all current and historic military facilities located in the State of Alabama.
First United States Army – U.S. Army Training, Readiness, and Mobilization Command formation at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois. Third United States Army – United States Army Central command formation headquartered at Shaw AFB. Fifth United States Army – United States Army North command formation at Joint Base San Antonio, Texas.
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]
Redstone Arsenal is a United States Army base adjacent to Huntsville, Alabama in the Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge. [1] A census-designated place in Madison County, Alabama, United States, it is part of the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. The Arsenal is a host to over 75 tenant agencies [1] including the Department of Defense ...
Fort Novosel (formerly Fort Rucker) is a United States Army post located primarily in Dale County, Alabama, United States. It is named in honor of Chief Warrant Officer Michael J. Novosel, an Army aviator and Medal of Honor recipient. [2][3] It was previously named for a Civil War officer, Confederate Colonel Edmund Rucker. [4]
Alabama: KOZR Camp Blanding Army Airfield: Camp Blanding: Florida: 2CB Camp Peary Landing Strip: Camp Peary: Virginia: W94 [4] Campbell Army Airfield: Fort Campbell: Kentucky: KHOP Davison Army Airfield: Fort Belvoir: Virginia: KDAA Dawson Army Airfield: Camp Dawson: West Virginia: 3G5 Dillingham Army Airfield: Dillingham Military Reservation ...
BG David Pritchett, USA. The Alabama National Guard is the National Guard of the U.S State of Alabama, and consists of the Alabama Army National Guard and the Alabama Air National Guard. (The Alabama State Defense Force is the third military unit of the Alabama Military Department, part of the Government of Alabama, however not a component of ...
The Alabama Army National Guard was originally formed in 1807. The Militia Act of 1903 organized the various state militias into the present National Guard system.. On the morning of 21 July 1861, the Union Army under the command of Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell, in an effort to cripple the newly assembled Confederate Army at Manassas, Virginia, fired the opening shots of the first major battle of ...