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Fort McClellan, originally Camp McClellan, is a decommissioned United States Army post located adjacent to the city of Anniston, Alabama. During World War II , it was one of the largest U.S. Army installations, training an estimated half-million troops.
The first class of civilian emergency responders graduated in late 1995, and civilian responders continued to train at the Army facility until 1998 as Fort McClellan continued its closure transition. Elected officials from across Alabama and local community leaders continued to seek ways to utilize the soon-to-be-abandoned Army facility.
The Alabama Military Academy is a National Guard officer candidate training school [clarification needed] located at the Fort McClellan Army National Guard Training Center in Fort McClellan, Alabama. [1] [2] It was established in 1957 and has the motto "It shall be done." [1] The training center celebrated Fort McClellan's 100th anniversary in ...
Fort McClellan Post Cemetery is one of 21 American cemeteries listed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as containing interments of prisoners of war (POW) for one, or both, world conflicts. Twenty-one VA cemeteries contain the remains of more than 1,000 World War II POWs; two more also contain the remains of World War I POWs. [4]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map.
Fort McClellan—former site of the U.S. Army Military Police Training Academy, a Vietnam era Infantry Training Center, Chemical Corps Regimental Headquarters, Chemical Warfare training center, and Women's Army Corps Headquarters—was decommissioned in the 1990s. A portion of the former fort is now home to the Alabama National Guard Training ...
The Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge is a 9,016-acre (36 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge located in northeastern Alabama near the city of Anniston on the former site of Fort McClellan. Its name comes from some of the last remaining montane longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) ecosystem in the southeastern United States which the refuge ...
Location of Fort McClellan Army Airfield Fort McClellan Army Airfield is a closed military airfield located 6 mi (9.7 km) north-northeast of Anniston, Alabama , United States. History