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Fort Bragg (formerly Fort Liberty), is a U.S. Army military installation located in North Carolina. It ranks among the largest military bases in the world by population, with more than 52,000 military personnel. [ 2 ]
Camp Mackall is an active U.S. Army training facility located in eastern Richmond County and northern Scotland County, North Carolina, south of the town of Southern Pines.The facility is in close proximity to and is a subinstallation of Fort Bragg (home to the XVIII Airborne Corps, the 82nd Airborne Division, and the U.S. Army Special Operations Command headquarters).
Fayetteville (/ ˈ f eɪ ə t v ɪ l / FAY-ət-vil, locally / ˈ f ɛ d v ə l / FED-vəl [8]) is a city in and the county seat of Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States. [9] It is best known as the home of Fort Bragg, a major U.S. Army installation northwest of the city.
Fort Bragg supports a population of 260,000 when including military families, contractors, retirees and others. It covers 284.5 miles across 172,000 acres, with 1,400 miles of paved roads and 23 ...
The community was originally a 17,500-acre (7,100 ha) estate owned by the Percy Rockefeller family but later acquired by the federal government and is now mostly located inside nearby Fort Bragg (Powell 1968, p. 87). A Donald Ross-designed golf course was added to the estate in two separate projects and is also now located inside Fort Bragg.
The All American Freeway is a highway in the U.S. state of North Carolina connecting I-295 and the western suburbs of Fayetteville to Fort Bragg.The majority of its length is a controlled-access freeway, while the northernmost 1.28 miles (2.06 km) of the road is a limited-access divided highway.
After June 1972, the squadron tail codes were standardized with "PB", representing (Pope/Bragg). The drop zones, low-level routes, and dirt landing zones at Fort Bragg became familiar to many men bound for Southeast Asia. The training gained in operating in the North Carolina area immeasurably improved aircrew preparedness for combat duty.
Fort Bragg in North Carolina was renamed Fort Liberty under President Joe Biden as the country pushed to eliminate ties between the current military and the confederacy.