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Human Statue of Liberty, created by Mole and Thomas using 18,000 officers and enlisted men at Camp Dodge near Des Moines, Iowa, 1918, during World War I. Camp Dodge is a military installation in the city of Johnston, Iowa. Centrally located near the capital of Iowa, it currently serves as the headquarters of the Iowa National Guard.
McClellan Air Force Base; Presidio of San Francisco; Sacramento Army Depot; San Carlos War Dog Training Center; Colorado Fitzsimons Army Medical Center; Camp Hale; Fort Garland; Camp George West Historic District COANG; Rocky Mountain Arsenal; District of Columbia – Washington, D.C. Camp Leach; Walter Reed Army Medical Center; Florida Camp ...
2010 In August 2010, nearly 3,000 Iowa National Guard soldiers, with 28 hometown send-offs, left for a year-long deployment to Afghanistan, making it the largest deployment of the Iowa National Guard since World War II. Augmented by the 1–134th Cavalry Reconnaissance and Surveillance Squadron of the Nebraska National Guard, the brigade ...
Sioux City Air National Guard Base: II Bomber Command B-17/B-24 Bomber Training 354th Army Air Force Base Unit: Sioux City: Closed 1945. Used by Air Defense Command as an Interceptor base, 1946-1968; Ground Control Radar station, 1959-1970. Now joint-use civilian airport and Iowa ANG base for KC-135 air refueling aircraft. Spencer Field
Photos collected by Hots&Cots and provided exclusively to NBC News reveal what the group considers evidence of unsanitary or dangerous living conditions for U.S. military personnel at bases in the ...
The Iowa Army National Guard was originally formed in 1838. The Militia Act of 1903 organized the various state militias into the present National Guard system. The 133d Infantry Regiment, formerly the 2nd Iowa Volunteer Infantry, served as part of the 67th Infantry Brigade, 34th Division, during World War I.
It consisted of a 2,300,000-US-gallon (8,700,000 L) swimming pool, a bathing pavilion, and a concession stand. The complex was built at Camp Dodge, the headquarters of the Iowa National Guard. When it was completed in 1922, the pool could accommodate between 1,000 and 2,000 people and it may have been the largest in the country. [2]
Iowa Army National Guard and the; Iowa Air National Guard; The Iowa National Guard headquarters is at Camp Dodge in Johnston, several miles north of the state capital Des Moines. The facility serves double duty as a continuity of government facility for the state of Iowa, as well as hosting the central hub of the state's extensive fiber optic ...