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Fort Myer is the previous name used for a U.S. Army post next to Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, and across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. Founded during the American Civil War as Fort Cass and Fort Whipple, the post merged in 2005 with the neighboring Marine Corps installation, Henderson Hall, and is today named Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall.
Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall is a joint base of the United States Armed Forces, located across multiple sites in the National Capital Region. It is jointly made up of Fort Myer (in Arlington), Fort McNair (in Washington, D.C.), and Henderson Hall (in Arlington). It is the local residue of the Base Realignment and Closure, 2005 process.
Its installations include Fort McNair, the nation's third-oldest military post still in use, and Fort Myer, Gen. Philip Sheridan's cavalry showplace and site of the first military aircraft flight. The District of Washington initially included Fort Washington, Md., Fort Hunt, Va., the District of Columbia
That's because the Fort Myers plant's emissions caught the agency by surprise, said Jeaneanne Gettle, acting director of EPA’s eight-state Region 4, at the time. “We were not aware of this ...
Henderson Hall is a military installation of the United States Marine Corps (USMC) located in Arlington County, Virginia, near the Pentagon, on the southern edge of the Arlington National Cemetery and next to Fort Myer. Currently, it is part of Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall.
Another historic event occurred on 15 December 2003, when Bravo Company of the 1st Battalion deployed from Fort Myer, Virginia, for duty in the U.S. Central Command area of operations. This was the first deployment of an element of The Old Guard's 1st Battalion since World War II.
Fort Myer Construction overbilled the government by inflating the cost of asphalt for construction jobs between 1995 and 1998. To make sure they were paid, the company bribed nine D.C. Department of Public Works employees, for which it pleaded guilty in 2003 and paid $900,000 in fines. [ 13 ]
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