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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.
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.
United States Military Academy (5 C, 51 P) United States Army schools (5 C, 46 P) ... Fort Chaffee Maneuver Training Center; Fort Eustis; Fort Jackson (South Carolina)
It was allotted to the Regular Army in October 1959 and activated on 1 November that year at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. It was inactivated on 1 April 1968 at Fort Chaffee. It was inactivated on 1 April 1968 at Fort Chaffee.
Some were kept in the two large Army posts, Fort Riley and Fort Leavenworth. Others were kept in locations scattered through the state, including Camp Phillips, near Smolan, Kansas . Camp Phillips was a camp used to train 75,000 to 80,000 soldiers for a tank destroyer battalion.
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On 23 July 1918, the War Department directed the organization of the 100th Division at Camp Bowie, Texas.Plans called for the division to include a headquarters, headquarters troop, the 199th Infantry Brigade (397th and 398th Infantry Regiments and 374th Machine Gun Battalion), 200th Infantry Brigade (399th and 400th Infantry Regiments and 375th Machine Gun Battalion), 373rd Machine Gun ...