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The hospital provides treatment to nearly 3,000 patients daily. The medical center is one of the largest in the Military Health System, comprising more than 105 buildings in addition to the main facility, spread over Fort Cavazos, three local communities, and a clinic at the Red River Army Depot in Bowie County, Texas, outside of Texarkana.
On May 24, 2022 the commission recommended the fort be renamed to Fort Cavazos, named after Gen. Richard E. Cavazos, a native Texan and the US Army’s first Hispanic four-star general. [ 50 ] [ 51 ] The recommendation report was finalized and submitted to Congress on October 1, 2022, [ 52 ] giving the US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin the ...
Richard Cavazos, a Mexican-American, [6] was born on 31 January 1929, in Kingsville, Texas.His brother was former United States Secretary of Education, Lauro Cavazos. [7] He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in geology from Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University) in 1951, where he played on the football team and was a distinguished graduate of the Reserve Officers' Training ...
Fort Hood, about 70 miles north of Austin, is the largest active-duty U.S. Army post in the U.S. and a top training facility since 1942, according to its website. About 40,000 soldiers work there ...
The 89th Military Police Brigade is a military police brigade of the United States Army based at Fort Cavazos, Texas.It is a subordinate unit of III Armored Corps.. Activated in Vietnam in the midst of the Vietnam War, the unit provided military police services for two corp-sized forces operating in the region.
Fort Cavazos was previously named after Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood. Cavazos, who died in 2017 at 78, grew up on a cattle ranch in Kingsville, Texas, and was of Mexican American heritage.
At Fort Cavazos, the 13th ACSC remains always ready to deploy with no notice/short notice to support efforts around the world. Currently the 13th has the following missions: Providing command and control of all assigned and attached units. Providing Combat Service Support to Fort Cavazos units through:
SEAC John W. Troxell (right) and the senior enlisted advisors for the unified combatant commands brief the media in the Pentagon, November 28, 2017.. This is a list of active duty United States senior enlisted leaders and advisors serving in the uniformed services of the United States.