Fort Huachuca

Fort Huachuca
	; ; Badges of some of the units in Ft. Huachuca
Lineup	1877
Country	United States of America
Armed forces	United States Armed Forces
United States Army	army
Subordinate troops	United States Army Intelligence Center • 9th Signal Command (A) • 11th Signal Brigade • 1st Battalion, 210th Aviation Regiment • Western Division of the Advanced Airlift Tactics Training Center u. a.
Insinuation	United States Army Installation Management Command
Location	Cochise County , Arizona
commander
Current ; commander	Brigadier General Gregg C. Potter
Master of ceremonies	Command Sergeant Major Todd Holiday

The training USAF Security Forces in Fort Huachuca

Fort Huachuca is a military base of the United States Army ( Army Installation Management Command ) in Cochise County , Arizona .

history

The history of the facility goes back to 1877. Two regiments of the Buffalo Soldiers were stationed here (1913 to 1933 10th Cavalry Regiment , then 25th Infantry Regiment). During the Korean War , the 25th Infantry Division was stationed here; during the Second World War, the 93rd Infantry Division . At the end of the Second World War, the facility had its largest area: 288.35 km².

Others

On November 20, 1974, Fort Huachuca was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a Historic District . The Old Post Area buildings were declared a National Historic Landmark on May 11, 1976 .

The airport Libby Army Airfield , the south-west of the building complex is located, was an emergency landing of the Space Shuttle , which never landed here.

The DEA operates from here Airships against drug trafficking with Mexico .

literature

Smith, Cornelius C. Jr., Fort Huachuca: The Story of a Frontier Post. Fort Huachuca, Arizona: 1978.

Web links

Commons : Fort Huachuca - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Fort Huachuca website

Individual evidence

↑ General History ( Memento of August 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Accessed September 3, 2011.
↑ TDYHouse Fort Huachuca History ( Memento of 28 July 2010 at the Internet Archive ). Accessed September 5, 2011.
^ Fort Huachuca in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed July 28, 2017.
↑ National Park Service : www.nps.gov Fort Huachuca . Accessed September 5, 2011.
↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Arizona. National Park Service , accessed July 20, 2019.
↑ Fort Huachuca, AZ - Visitors - Welcome :. Fort Huachuca, archived from the original on September 3, 2011 ; accessed on September 15, 2011 (English): "Libby Army Airfield ... is on the list of alternate landing locations for the space shuttle, though it has never been used as such"

31.555277777778 -110.34972222222Coordinates: 31 ° 33 ′ 19 ″ N , 110 ° 20 ′ 59 ″ W.

[1] General History ( Memento of August 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Accessed September 3, 2011.

[2] TDYHouse Fort Huachuca History ( Memento of 28 July 2010 at the Internet Archive ). Accessed September 5, 2011.

[3] Fort Huachuca in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed July 28, 2017.

[4] National Park Service : www.nps.gov Fort Huachuca . Accessed September 5, 2011.

[5] Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Arizona. National Park Service , accessed July 20, 2019.

[6] Fort Huachuca, AZ - Visitors - Welcome :. Fort Huachuca, archived from the original on September 3, 2011 ; accessed on September 15, 2011 (English): "Libby Army Airfield ... is on the list of alternate landing locations for the space shuttle, though it has never been used as such"