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Fort Riley is a United States Army installation located in North Central Kansas, on the Kansas River, also known as the Kaw, between Junction City and Manhattan.The Fort Riley Military Reservation covers 101,733 acres (41,170 ha) in Geary and Riley counties. [1]
Camp Funston is a U.S. Army training camp located on the grounds of Fort Riley, southwest of Manhattan, Kansas. The camp was named for Brigadier General Frederick Funston (1865–1917). It is one of sixteen such camps that were established at the outbreak of World War I for use as infantry division training camps.
Fort Riley was an early beneficiary of the helicopter's increased importance in post-Korea U.S. Army air missions, becoming home to the 5th Army's first helicopter training facility. Air Force operations at Marshall ended in late 1953, and on 19 November 1953, the first three Sikorsky H-19 D helicopters purchased by the Army arrived fresh from ...
Nov. 6—Navy Federal Credit Union celebrated the grand opening of a branch located on Fort Riley US Army Base in Kansas. Base dignitaries, along with executive vice president of branch operations ...
The DISCOM HHC was re-deployed to Fort Riley Kansas in August 2006 to build the 1st Sustainment Brigade. [5] [7] For a brief period, the DISCOM gained administrative control over the 97th Military Police Battalion, the 541st CSSB, the Band, and the 101st Military Intelligence Battalion. The 101st was in-activated in December 2006, the 541st and ...
Riley County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat and largest city is Manhattan. [3] As of the 2020 census, the population was 71,959. [1] The county was named after Bennet Riley, the 7th governor of California, and a Mexican–American War hero. Riley County is home to Fort Riley and Kansas State University.
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The Fort Riley CDP is located primarily in southern Riley County at (39.088222, -96.814092 A small portion of the CDP crosses the county line south into Geary County. According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 5.1 square miles (13.1 km 2 ), of which 0.01 square miles (0.02 km 2 ), or 0.17%, is water.