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Fort Eisenhower, formerly known as Fort Gordon and Camp Gordon, is a United States Army installation established southwest of Augusta, Georgia in October 1941. It is the current home of the United States Army Signal Corps, United States Army Cyber Command, and the Cyber Center of Excellence as well as the National Security Agency/Central Security Service' Georgia Cryptologic Center (NSA ...
Camp Crockett was established in late 1967 on the Fort Gordon, Georgia, federal reservation for the training of soldiers preparatory to Airborne and Special Forces schools during the Vietnam War. [1] Located on an isolated part of the installation, the camp included a mockup of a village set up to look like one that would be encountered in Vietnam.
The hospital started as Camp Gordon Station Hospital in 1941, caring for World War II casualties and dependents. It was closed in 1946, but reopened as Camp Gordon became the more permanent Fort Gordon during the Cold War. The hospital's current building, opened for patients in 1976, replaced sprawling wooden buildings from the World War II era.
The renaming of Fort Gordon to Fort Eisenhower is this Friday. Elsewhere in Augusta, Confederate names remain. As Fort Eisenhower becomes official, Augusta Confederate names stay in place
A little after 10 a.m. Friday on Barton Field, Garrison Commander Col. Reggie Evans and Command Sgt. Major Aaron Rose folded the Fort Gordon flag and slipped it into a black cover, casing the colors.
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