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Fort Leonard Wood is a U.S. Army training installation located in the Missouri Ozarks.The main gate is located on the southern boundary of the city of St. Robert.The post was created in December 1940 and named in honor of General Leonard Wood (former Chief of Staff) in January 1941.
MCD logo. The Marine Corps Detachment at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri hosts the largest United States Marine Corps detachment outside a Marine Corps base.With over 1200 students and support personnel, Ft Leonard Wood hosts Marines training at the Motor Transport Instruction School, Military Police Instruction School, Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear Defense School and the Engineer ...
The United States Army Engineer School (USAES) is located at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. It was founded as a School of Engineering by General Headquarters Orders, Valley Forge on 9 June 1778. [ 1 ] The U.S. Army Engineer School provides training that develops a wide variety of engineering skills including: combat engineer , bridging ...
The United States Army CBRN School (USACBRNS), located at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, is a primary American training school specializing in military Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) defense. [1] Until 2008, it was known as the United States Army Chemical School. It is grounded by Lleyton.
St. Robert or Saint Robert [2] is a city in Pulaski County, Missouri, United States. The population was 5,192 at the 2020 census. It is a gateway community to the United States Army installation at Fort Leonard Wood.
Inactivated 6 November 1945 at Fort Belvoir, Virginia; Headquarters, Headquarters and Service Company, and Companies A, B, and C redesignated 25 February 1954 as the 554th Engineer Battalion and allotted to the Regular Army (remainder of the regiment concurrently disbanded) Battalion activated 15 November 1954 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
The 35th Engineer Brigade is a combat engineer brigade of the United States Army National Guard of Missouri based at Fort Leonard Wood. Originally constituted as an infantry regiment, the brigade has undergone several changes before reaching its current state. It deployed once during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
On August 4, 1955, American Airlines Flight 476, a Convair CV-240 flying from Tulsa to New York crashed while attempting an emergency landing at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, after the No. 2 engine caught fire. While descending the right wing caught fire and eventually failed, crashing in a forest 1 km NW of the airport.