Fort Belvoir

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Fort Belvoir, main building

Fort Belvoir is a US Army - Garrison in Fairfax County ( Virginia ) and was on the site of the former Belvoir plantation of the family of Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron , a British landowner colonial and namesake of the county, built.

history

The camp was set up as a shooting range and training camp during the First World War from 1917 and was called Camp AA Humphreys . The narrow-gauge railway at Camp AA Humphreys ran from 1918 to 1920. In 1922 the camp became a permanent garrison, it was renamed Fort Humphreys and in 1935 it was given its current name Fort Belvoir . The fort housed the United States Army Engineer School until 1987 . The garrison currently houses a large number of US military facilities and, along with the Pentagon , is one of the most important facilities of the US Department of Defense . With over 50,000 posts, Fort Belvoir employs around twice as many people as the Pentagon. The garrison includes over 600 buildings on around 1.5 square kilometers. Among other things, a hospital, an airfield, two golf courses and around 7,500 apartments. From an administrative point of view, it has the status of a census-designated place .

Departments

The Castle , Newspaper from Camp AA Humphreys, 1918
  • 1st Information Operations Command
  • 12th Aviation Battalion
  • 29th Infantry Division of the Virginia National Guard
  • 212th Military Police Detachment
  • 249th Engineer Battalion
  • 55th Ordnance Company
  • 75th Military Police Detachment
  • 9th Theater Support Command
  • 902nd Military Intelligence Group
  • Aerospace Data Facility East
  • US Army Intelligence and Security Command
  • Defense Contract Audit Agency
  • Defense Logistics Agency
  • Defense Threat Reduction Agency
  • Military Intelligence Readiness Command
  • Missile Defense Agency
  • National Geospatial Intelligence Agency

The US Army National Museum in Fort Belvoir is scheduled to open at the end of 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.tripsavvy.com/us-army-museum-at-fort-belvoir-va-1039317
  2. ↑ https://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/03/16/construction-to-begin-on-national-army-museum.html

Coordinates: 38 ° 43 ′ 11.1 ″  N , 77 ° 9 ′ 16.5 ″  W.