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Farragut NTS, Idaho Class 218, ca. 1943. Ground was broken on the 4,160-acre (1,700 ha) naval reservation in March 1942, [3] and its first phase opened in early August; [4] by September the base had a population of 55,000, making it the largest "city" in the state. [5]
Farragut State Park is a public recreation area in the northwest United States, located in northern Idaho at the southern tip of Lake Pend Oreille in the Coeur d'Alene Mountains. [2] The 4,000-acre (1,600 ha) state park is five miles (8 km) east of Athol in Kootenai County , about thirty miles (50 km) northeast of Coeur d'Alene .
C. Camp Dunlap; Camp Kearny; Camp Robert Smalls; Camp Seabee; Camp Wellfleet; Carrizo Impact Area; Casco Cove Coast Guard Station; Charleston Naval Shipyard; Naval Auxiliary Air Station Charlestown
Coat of Arms of David Farragut. James Glasgow Farragut was born in 1801 to George Farragut (born Jordi Farragut Mesquida, 1755–1817), a Spanish Balearic merchant captain from the Mediterranean island of Menorca, and his wife Elizabeth (née Shine, 1765–1808), of North Carolina Scotch-Irish American descent, at Lowe's Ferry on the Holston River in Tennessee. [9]
During World War II, Bayview hosted the sizable Farragut Naval Training Station. Acoustic Trials Detachment, Titusville, Florida, is the U.S. location managing and supporting the South Tongue of the Ocean (TOTO) Acoustic Measurement Facility (STAFAC) at the Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) in the Bahamas.
Control of many U.S.-operated bases was transferred to the Iraqi government during the 2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal. At the request of the Iraqi government in January 2024, [ 3 ] and amid rising regional tensions following the 2023 Israeli invasion of Gaza , the US and Iraq are set to begin negotiations to end US military presence in Iraq.
Farragut is a suburban town located in Knox and Loudon counties in the State of Tennessee, United States. [2] The town's population was 23,506 at the 2020 census. It is included in the Knoxville Metropolitan Area .
USS Farragut (DDG-99) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She is the fifth Navy ship named for Admiral David Farragut (1801–1870), and the 49th ship of the Arleigh Burke class. Farragut 's keel was laid down on 9 January 2004 at the Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine.