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Fort Drum is a U.S. Army military reservation and a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson County, near the western border of northern New York, United States. The population of the CDP portion of the base was 12,955 at the 2010 census. [3] It is home to the 10th Mountain Division. Fort Drum consists of 107,265 acres (434.09 km 2).
Fort Niagara and Pine Camp (now Fort Drum) maintained several sub or branch camps, including one Geneseo. [25] Fort Oglethorpe: Georgia Fort Oglethorpe: Fort Omaha: Nebraska Omaha: Fort Ord: California A 120 feet (37 m) nearly completed escape tunnel was discovered by authorities. [26] Fort Patrick Henry: Virginia Fort Reno: Oklahoma Fort Riley ...
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The earliest hospital at Fort Drum was a 540-bed mobilization hospital in the old post 2400 area, constructed during the period of 1942-44 while the post was still known as Pine Camp. [1] When the post was redesignated as Camp Drum [2] in 1951, parts of the hospital remained in order to support the reserve training mission of the installation ...
For the next 13 years, the division served as a traditional line Infantry division, training annually at Camp Edwards, Massachusetts and at Pine Camp (now Fort Drum), New York. In May 1959, the Division was re-designated and reorganized as the 76th Division (Training) with the mission of training initial (basic) entry soldiers of various ...
United States Disciplinary Barracks, Southeastern Branch at Camp Gordon, Georgia; United States Disciplinary Barracks, Southern Branch at North Camp Hood, Texas; United States Disciplinary Barracks, Southwestern Branch at Camp Haan, California; Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Florida (1861–1869)
Watertown Air Force Station is a closed United States Air Force ADCOM General Surveillance Radar station 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south of Watertown, New York.Prior to the Air Defense squadron inactivating on 1 November 1979, the station was reassigned to Tactical Air Command which maintained the Ground Air Transmitter Receiver until early 1984 (now a firefighter training site). [4]
The 4th Armored Division was activated during World War II on 15 April 1941 with 3,800 men (10,000 by the end of May 1941) from various other units, at Pine Camp (Camp Drum, 1951; Fort Drum, 1974), New York under its first Commanding General, Brigadier General Henry W. Baird.