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In 1969, Fort Dix was the largest military base in the northeastern U.S. and was one of the principal basic training sites for soldiers destined for Vietnam. The base contained a mock Vietnam village where search and destroy and other Vietnam-specific mission training was conducted. The Army initially claimed the stockade, where the riot ...
The Human Liberty Bell at Camp Dix, including 25,000 people in 1918. Fort Dix was established on 16 July 1917, as Camp Dix, named in honor of Major General John Adams Dix, a veteran of the War of 1812 and the American Civil War, and a former U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, and Governor of New York. [13]
At Fort Dix, on June 5, 1969, 150 prisoners, angry about beatings, crowded cells, starvation, being chained to chairs, and an unjust war, took over several buildings. The trials of the Fort Dix 38 became a cause célèbre in the antiwar movement.
The Fort Dix Coffeehouse opened in April 1969 in Wrightstown, New Jersey, the location of the Fort Dix army base, a major training location for troops heading to Vietnam. Fort Dix soldiers published a newspaper called The Time Has Come for a Long-Needed Shakedown out of the coffeehouse from 1969 to 1970. The coffeehouse played a major role in ...
Reactivated: 15 July 1947 at Fort Dix, New Jersey; Inactivated: 31 January 1962 at Fort Carson, Colorado; Redesignated 1 February 1966 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 9th Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Riley, Kansas; Inactivated 25 September 1969 in Hawaii; Activated: 21 April 1972 at Fort Lewis, Washington
Republic of Vietnam, 25 June 1970 [162] The Group Headquarters had actually been reduced to zero strength on June 15, 1969. [80] Fort Bragg, North Carolina, 21 September 1974 [163] Fort Bragg, North Carolina, April 21, 2010; 62nd Medical Group, Fort Lewis, Washington, reorganized and redesignated 62nd Medical Brigade, 16 October 2001 [164]
A Fort Worth man, Allen Plaster, spotted a large white shape in the tall grass near Greer Island around 1:35 a.m. on Nov. 19, 1969. He took a photo with his Polaroid camera.
The 1969 bombing was the first of several blasts that would ... as an estimated 5,000 anti-war demonstrators crossed into the boundaries of the base at Fort Dix, ...