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Fort Crockett is a government reservation on Galveston Island overlooking the Gulf of Mexico originally built as a defense installation to protect the city and harbor of Galveston and to secure the entrance to Galveston Bay, thus protecting the commercial and industrial ports of Galveston and Houston and the extensive oil refineries in the bay area.
Coast Guard Air Station Houston: Houston Coast Guard Sector Field Office Galveston: Galveston Coast Guard Station Aransas: Port Aransas: Coast Guard Station Freeport: Surfside Beach: Coast Guard Station Port O'Connor: Port O'Connor: Coast Guard Station Sabine Pass: Port Arthur: Coast Guard Station Saluria: Matagorda Island: Coast Guard Station ...
Joint Base San Antonio – located 8 kilometers (5 miles) north of San Antonio, Texas; Joint Base Langley-Eustis – located 12 kilometers (8 miles) east of Newport News, Virginia; Joint Region Marianas – combines Naval Base Guam, Andersen Air Force Base and Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz all located on the U.S. territory of Guam
Matagorda Island Air Force Base (/ ˈ m æ t ə ˈ ɡ ɔːr d ə / ⓘ [1]) is a closed military airfield on the north end of Matagorda Island, northeast of Corpus Christi, Texas. It was closed by the United States Air Force in 1975.
During World War II, the US Army opened or expanded a number of bases and airfields for training. Extensive U-boat activity in the Gulf of Mexico led to concern about naval raids on Texas ports and coastal cities by ships and submarines of the Axis powers. Forts of this period include: Fort Bliss (near El Paso) Fort Brown (in Brownsville)
Five years after the catastrophic Hurricane Katrina, real estate players are predicting that BP's oil spill has the potential to hinder the Gulf Coast more severely than that epic storm. "This ...
When the Cold War ended in 1991, all U.S. military services down-sized force organizations, consolidated, and realigned bases. On 30 May 1996, Coast Guard 8th District (Gulf of Mexico), and CG 2nd District (Mississippi & Ohio western river system) were combined to form the enlarged new 8th Coast Guard District, leaving the Coast Guard ...
In 2001, an 18-year-old committed to a Texas boot camp operated by one of Slattery’s previous companies, Correctional Services Corp., came down with pneumonia and pleaded to see a doctor as he struggled to breathe. Guards accused the teen of faking it and forced him to do pushups in his own vomit, according to Texas law enforcement reports ...