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Area Installations: Fort Monroe, Old Point Comfort, Virginia First operational on July 25th 1823, Fort Monroe is, for the moment, the headquarters for the Army's Training and Doctrine Command, knows as TRADOC. It is also home to Northern Command's Joint Task Force Civil Support and the Casemate Museum. It is the only active Army post with a moat. The post is scheduled to close in 2011 as part of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure recommendation. It's future use has yet to be determined. TRADOC headquarters will move to Fort Eustis in Yorktown. In January 2010, Langley merged with Fort Eustis in Newport News creating Joint Base Langley-Eustis. While each installation maintains its distinct identity, the support for both locations has been combined under the new 633rd Air Base Wing. The main units on Langley AFB are Air Combat Command, 480th Intellience Sureveillance Reconnaisance Wing, 1st Fighter Wing and 633rd Air Base Wing. Langley's 1st Fighter Wing consists of F-15s flown by the 71st Fighter Squadron and F-22 Raptors flown by the 27th and 94th Fighter Squadron. The Virginia Air National Guard's 192nd Fighter Squadron Wing moved from Richmond to Langley AFB in October 2007 and began flying Raptors along side active duty airmen. Coast Guard Training Center, Yorktown Welcome to Coast Guard Training Center Yorktown's home on the Internet. Our mission is "Forging Today's Force to Execute Tomorrow's Mission.” We accomplish our mission through resident, non-resident, and exportable training teams; Assessment and Standardization programs; Doctrine Support; and External Engagement with our international, interagency and local partners. Our vision is to “Optimize Workforce Performance and Unit Readiness.” Training Center Yorktown proudly upholds the Coast Guard's motto "Semper Paratus," graduating students "always ready" to meet today's challenges.
Naval Weapons Station, Yorktown York County encompasses 108.5 Square Miles or 69,440 Acres. Naval Weapons Station Complex (including Cheatham Annex) 20.7 Square Miles. Roughly 1/5 of the total land area of York County. Naval Weapons Station borders the counties of York and James City, the cities of Newport News and Williamsburg, and shares almost 14 miles of the York River shoreline (about half of the county's York River shoreline and wetlands) with the National Park Service.
The land of Naval Weapons Station Yorktown is rich in colonial history. The station sits amidst a setting of natural beauty surrounded by the distant echo of the first settlers in Virginia and the battle cries of the Revolutionary War. Long before the world ever conceived of such things as the testing and evaluation that now go on at the weapons station, the infantry of the American Revolution and the Civil War slogged along the Old Williamsburg Road where today it runs through the station. The oldest structure onboard the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station is the Lee House, built around 1649, where many generations of the family lived out their lives before the property was acquired by the U.S. government.
The site of the weapons station was acquired for the Navy by a presidential proclamation on August 7, 1918, and was at the time the largest naval installation in the world, its land area covering about twenty square miles. Over the years, the growth and expansion of the Navy’s technical requirements and responsibilities have been reflected by corresponding developments at the station to support the Atlantic Fleet. As part of the Navy’s Mid-Atlantic installation claimant consolidation, Cheatham Annex, formerly an annex of the Fleet Industrial Supply Center, Norfolk, was incorporated with the station on October 1, 1998. This area of land located in the Jamestown, Williamsburg, Yorktown historical triangle was acquired by the Navy on June 21, 1943. Camp Peary ("The Farm"), Williamsburg
This is officially named the Armed Forces Experimental Training Activity. Don't tell anyone but the CIA uses this 10,000 acre camp as a training center. Little is publicly known about the place. The number of workers there and the payroll are never divulged to the public.
Camp Peary was "originally established on the banks of the York River in 1942 as a training camp for Navy SeaBees, and later included a Prisoner of War camp." "At some point following WW2, the property was transferred from the Navy to the Central Intelligence Agency, which made Camp Peary its field operations training site. The facility, which occupies "about 9,275 acres of land" in a "wooded area enclosed with chain-link fences, barbed wire, guards and 'No Trespassing' signs, has been an enigma along Interstate 64" since it opened January 22, 1952. In 1994, it was believed to be a Department of Defense "training facility for covert operations" FORT EUSTIS, Newport News Established in 1918, Fort Eustis is named for Brevet Brig. General Abraham Eustis, a Virginia native and veteran of the War of 1812. The base is headquarters for the Army Transportation Center and School, the 7th Sustainment Brigade, the 8th Transportation Brigade and the Army Transportation Museum. Soldiers stationed there continue to deploy to Iraq to unload supply ships at Kuwait ports and truck the goods into Iraq. FORT STORY, Virginia Beach Welcome to Fort Story, located on the lower Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean in southeast Virginia. Fort Story is a sub-installation of Fort Eustis, home of the U.S. Army's Transportation Corps. Together, Fort Story and Fort Eustis provide the U.S. Army's unique training specializing in land and sea transportation. Fort Story is located at the entrance of the Chesapeake Bay within the city of Virginia Beach. It is the Army's only training facility for logistics-over-the-shore operations to train troops on amphibious equipment and to practice the transfer of military cargo from ship to shore. Fort Story offers the unique combination of features including dunes, beaches, sand, surf, deep-water anchorage, variable tide conditions, maritime forest and open land. These unique coastal natural resource features offer unique training opportunities to a variety of military units representing the U.S. Army, in addition to the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard.. Fort Story has a considerable amount of land mass in acres of sandy trails, cypress swamps, grassy dunes and soft and hard sand beaches. The beaches are wide, gently sloped and washed by the waters of the Chesapeake Bay on one side, and get pounded by the surf of the Atlantic Ocean on the other. There are two main uses of the jurisdictional areas at Fort Story. The first is used for cantonment. The remaining use is for open operational purposes, including use for outdoor training areas. The outdoor training areas include beaches, maritime forest and open areas for a variety of military training needs. FORT LEE, Virginia Welcome to the home of the service members and civilians who "Feed You, Fuel You, and Supply You," from the Garrison to the Battlefield. It is our philosophy that regardless of where you go, or who you are, you are entitled to the highest standards of service and courtesy possible. When Camp Lee opened in 1941, tens of thousands of Soldiers trainees entered through the original main gate in the woods located a short distance from the current Lee Avenue Gate. A portion of the old hard surface still exists. There are four major commands on Fort Lee: the Combined Arms Support Command, the Quartermaster School, the U.S. Army Garrison, the Army Logistics Management College, and the headquarters for the Defense Commissary Command. These commands have a number of subordinate commands and related activities on post. The U.S. Army Garrison falls under the Installation Management Command, a new command which oversees the management of all U.S. Army Garrisons worldwide.
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