Fort Huachuca
Fort Huachuca |
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Badges of some of the units in Ft. Huachuca |
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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 |
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.
See also
Web links
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"
Coordinates: 31 ° 33 ′ 19 ″ N , 110 ° 20 ′ 59 ″ W.