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Fort Chaffee Joint Maneuver Training Center, also known as Fort Chaffee, is an Arkansas Army National Guard installation located in western Arkansas, adjacent to the city of Fort Smith. Established as Camp Chaffee in 1941, renamed to Fort Chaffee in 1956, it has served as a U.S. Army base, training camp, prisoner-of-war camp , and refugee camp .
The Fort Chaffee Maneuver Training Center had previously been used as a detention center for Vietnamese refugees and Carter negotiated with Arkansas governor Bill Clinton for the use of the center to process Cuban refugees. At first Clinton feared the plan, and instead requested that they be processed on an aircraft carrier.
Inactivated 23 December 1959 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Redesignated 8 August 1962 as the 3d Target Acquisition Battalion, 25th Artillery. Activated 23 August 1962 at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. Redesignated 15 April 1968 as the 3d Battalion, 25th Artillery. Inactivated 20 February 1970 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
The Arkansas Army National Guard also operates two major training facilities, Chaffee Maneuver Training Center (formerly Fort Chaffee), located near Fort Smith, Arkansas and Robinson Maneuver Training Center (formerly Camp Joseph T. Robinson) located in North Little Rock, Arkansas.
Fort Coffee is a town in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States. Originally constructed as a U. S. Army fort in 1834, it was named for U. S. General John Coffee, a veteran of the Seminole Wars. [4] It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 424 at the 2010 census, a gain of 2.9 percent ...
Map of the small U.S. military installations, ranges and training areas in the continental United States. This is a list of military installations owned or used by the United States Armed Forces both in the United States and around the world.
Fort Chaffee Maneuver Training Center: Arkansas: KAZU [3] ... Oklahoma: Love-Hatbox Sports Complex Newport Army Air Field: Arkansas: 1942-1944 [13] Newport Municipal ...
36 Oklahoma. 37 Oregon. 38 Pennsylvania. 39 Puerto Rico. 40 Rhode Island. 41 South Carolina. 42 South Dakota. ... Fort Chaffee, closed to the public; Fort Curtis ...