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On May 13, 2005, the Base Realignment and Closure commission recommended that Fort Gillem, along with Fort McPherson and the Navy Supply Corps School be closed. [5] An exit ceremony was held at Fort Gillem on June 3, 2011, and First Army troops stationed there were transferred to the Rock Island Arsenal in Rock Island, Illinois. [5]
Fort McPherson's nearest Army neighbor, and its sub-post, was Fort Gillem, previously established as the Atlanta Army Depot in 1941, is located in Forest Park, Georgia, approximately 11 miles to the southeast. Fort Gillem was a logistical support base, housing some Army, Department of Defense, and other government agencies.
Morris Army Airfield (IATA: FOP, FAA LID: 65GA) was a military airport located at Fort Gillem, within the city of Forest Park in Clayton County, Georgia, southwest of the city of Atlanta, Georgia, just 3.8 miles (6.1 km) east of the Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
Fort Yuma; Oakland Army Base; Mare Island Naval Shipyard; ... Fort Gillem; Fort McPherson; Fort Oglethorpe; Idaho Idaho Launch Complex; Illinois Camp Lincoln; Camp Ellis;
Pentagon officials calculated that, if adopted in full by the nine-member BRAC Commission, the recommendations would have saved almost $50 billion over 20 years. The BRAC Commission (officially known as the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission) disputed this claim, pointing out what it considered to be significant flaws in the Department's methodology.
Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) [1] [2] was a process [3] by a United States federal government commission [4] to increase the efficiency of the United States Department of Defense by coordinating the realignment and closure of military installations following the end of the Cold War.
The 221st Military Intelligence Battalion, based at the Gillem Enclave in Forest Park, Georgia, is a major battalion in the 560th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade (United States) in the Army National Guard
Fort Gillem; Fort Hawkins, open to the public; Fort James Jackson, open to the public; Fort King George, open to the public; Fort McAllister, open to the public; Fort McPherson; Fort Moore, closed to the public; Fort Pulaski, open to the public; Fort Scott; Fort Stewart, closed to the public