Fort Drum

This article covers the military base in New York State; for the fortress of the same name in the Philippines see Fort Drum (El Fraile) .

Fort Drum
active	1908
Country	United States
Armed forces	United States Army
10th U.S. Mountain Division	Mountain troop

Location of Fort Drum

Soldiers of the National Guard's 42nd ID during sniper training

Fort Drum is a military base of the US Army . The base is located in the north of the state of New York east of Watertown in Jefferson County and covers an area of ​​434 km². The base is named after Lieutenant General Hugh Aloysius Drum . The unit has existed since 1908. Until 1974 it was called Pine Camp .

The base is not only home to a large part of the 10th US Mountain Division , the only major unit of this branch of the Army, but also a training, mobilization and administration center for the US Army Reserve , which trains over 80,000 reservists there every year. At the same time, the base also serves as a training and education center for units of the US National Guard .

In 2008 almost 19,000 soldiers were permanently stationed at Fort Drum .

Stationed units

• 10th U.S. Mountain Division
  • 1st Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT) (Infantry Brigade)
  • 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT) (Infantry Brigade)
  • 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT) (Infantry Brigade)
  • 10th Combat Aviation Brigade ( Army Aviation ), 10th Mountain Division
• 10th logistics brigade

The following units will be relocated to Fort Drum by the end of 2013

• Combat Support Brigade (Maneuver Enhancement Brigade) from Hawaii (to be set up)

Air relocation and embarkation assembly points

• Wheeler-Sack Army Airfield
• Port of New York, New Jersey

Web links

• Official website (English)
• Fort Drum at globalsecurity.org (English)
• 10th Mountain Division in Iraq (English)

Coordinates: 44 ° 2 ′ 17 ″  N , 75 ° 45 ′ 29 ″  W.