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Welcome to Fort Jackson
'VICTORY STARTS HERE!'
Fort Jackson is the largest and most active Initial Entry Training Center in the U.S. Army, training 50 percent of all Soldiers and nearly 60 percent of the women entering the Army each year. To provide the Army with trained, disciplined, motivated and physically fit warriors who espouse the Army's core values and are focused on teamwork, is the post's primary mission. Accomplishing that mission means training more than 44,000 Basic Combat Training ...

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From Plows to Pistons
On Jan. 17, 1941, almost 11 months before the U.S. entered World War II, the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations asked the Commandant of the 13th Naval District to find a location for the re-arming and refueling of Navy patrol planes operating in defense of Puget Sound, should such defense be necessary.

Lake Ozette, Indian Island, Keystone Harbor, Penn Cove and Oak Harbor were considered and later rejected because of mountainous terrain, bluff shorefront, ...

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WELCOME TO GRAND FORKS AFB
Welcome to Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota; a base in transition from air refueling tankers to remotely piloted aircraft which has given the United States a game-changing capability to perform intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions throughout the world.
In compliance with a 2005 Base Realignment and Closure directive, we successfully ended one half century of air refueling operations when the last KC-135 departed Grand Forks on December 4, 2010. During their ...

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Welcome Aboard
Welcome to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, home to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing. Since Oct. 1, 1997, Marines and Sailors have been living and working aboard the 23,000-acre facility.

Miramar's primary mission is to maintain and operate the facilities; and provide services and material to support operations of the 3rd MAW and other tenant organizations. The success of this mission is made possible by Miramar's most valuable asset-its people.

Marines, Sailors and Civilian Marines are the driving ...

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Welcome to the United States Coast Guard Academy. The smallest of America's five federal service academies, the Coast Guard Academy is situated on 103 acres of rolling hills on the west bank of the Thames River in historic New London, Conn.

The Coast Guard Academy offers a prestigious higher education experience which emphasizes leadership, physical fitness and professional development in order to graduate the very best Coast Guard officers. Graduates go directly to positions of leadership in the U.S. Coast ...

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Washington D.C. was founded on July 16, 1790 based on a plan by world renowned architect and urban planner Pierre Charles L’Enfant. The site for the new capital city was picked by its namesake, the first president of the United States, George Washington. The 68.3 square miles that compose Washington D.C. were carved out of Maryland and Virginia, creating a one-of-a-kind federal district. The district is ultimately governed by Congress, but much of the day-to-day administrative and routine work is ...

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