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Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall is a joint base of the United States Armed Forces, located across multiple sites in the National Capital Region. It is jointly made up of Fort Myer (in Arlington), Fort McNair (in Washington, D.C.), and Henderson Hall (in Arlington). It is the local residue of the Base Realignment and Closure, 2005 process.
Fort McNair is today part of the Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall, the headquarters of the Army's Military District of Washington, and serves as home to the National Defense University, as well as the official residence of the Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
Fort Myer is the previous name used for a U.S. Army post next to Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, and across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. Founded during the American Civil War as Fort Cass and Fort Whipple, the post merged in 2005 with the neighboring Marine Corps installation, Henderson Hall, and is today named Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall.
Covering 25.6 acres (104,000 m 2) of land, [6] Henderson Hall is home to the USMC headquarters company unit and associated educational facilities. Since 2009, Henderson Hall is jointly managed by the Marine Corps and the Army as Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall.
Quarters 1 at Fort Myer is a historic house on the grounds of Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia. Built in 1899, it has been the residence of Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. Army since 1910, notably including George C. Marshall , Dwight D. Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur . [ 4 ]
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The CINC Guard CO at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Virginia. The original Commander-in-Chief's Guard, from which Company A claims nominal lineage, was authorized on March 11, 1776 and organized the next day at Cambridge, Massachusetts as the bodyguard and personal escort to Gen. George Washington.
Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall – located 1 kilometer (1 mile) northwest of Arlington County, Virginia; Joint Expeditionary Base–Little Creek – located 20 kilometers (13 miles) northwest of Virginia Beach; Joint Base Lewis-McChord – located 17 kilometers (11 miles) southwest of Tacoma, Washington