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This is a list of military installations owned or used by the United States Armed Forces currently located in the United States and around the world. This list details only current or recently closed facilities; some defunct facilities are found at Category:Closed military installations of the United States.
An "installation" is defined as "a military base, camp, post, station, yard, center, homeport facility for any ship, or other activity under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense, including leased space, that is controlled by, or primarily supports DoD's activities. An installation may consist of one or more sites" (geographically-separated real estate parcels).[1]: DoD-3
The United States operates a global network of military installations and is by far the largest operator of military bases abroad with locations in dozens of nations on every continent, with 38 "named bases"[note 1] having active-duty, National Guard, reserve, or civilian personnel as of September 30, 2014. Its largest, in terms of personnel, is Ramstein AB, in Germany, with almost 9,200 personnel.[1][note 2] The Pentagon stated in 2013 that there are "around" 5,000 bases total, with "around" 600 of them overseas.[2] Due to the sensitive nature of the subject there is no comprehensive list of detailed information on the exact number or location of all bases, stations and installations as it involves highly classified information. The total number of foreign sites for installations and facilities that are either in active use and service or may be activated and operated and by American military personnel and allies is at just over 1000.[3]
Joint bases[edit]
Domestic[edit]
Overseas[edit]
- War Reserve Stocks are located in many foreign states.
Australia[edit]
- Pine Gap - Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap (JDFPG), Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
- Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt - located on the northwest coast of Australia, 6 kilometres (4 mi) north of the town of Exmouth, Western Australia.
- Robertson Barracks - located in Darwin, Northern Territory.
- Australian Defence Satellite Communications Station - located near Kojarena 30 km east of Geraldton, Western Australia.
- Other US bases in Australia are present and this list does not include ADF bases with US access. The US military has access to all major ADF training areas, northern Australian RAAF airfields, port facilities in Darwin and Fremantle, and highly likely future access[timeframe?] to an expanded Stirling naval base in Perth, and the airfield on the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean.[4][5][6]
Iraq[edit]
- There are approximately 2,500 U.S. servicemembers in Iraq,[7] spread across several facilities in Iraq and other bases in Iraqi Kurdistan,[8] being used as training bases for Iraqi and Kurdish forces[9] as well as launching operations against targets in Syria.[10]
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Niger[edit]
The U.S. operates drone bases from three locations across Niger. These locations are staffed by several hundred U.S. Special Operations Forces in a non-combat role, aiding the Nigerien military with training and surveillance.
Syria[edit]
Landing zone at Al-Tanf, Syria
There were approximately 1,500–2,000 U.S. Marine and Special Operations Forces in Syria, spread across 12 different facilities, being used as training bases for Kurdish rebels.[16][17] These soldiers withdrew from Syria to western Iraq in October 2019.[18] Meanwhile, the New York Times reported that the Pentagon was planning to "leave 150 Special Operations forces at a base called al-Tanf", where the United States is training Free Syrian Army rebels.[19] In addition, 200 U.S. soldiers would remain in eastern Syria near the oil fields, to prevent the Islamic State, Syrian government and Russian forces from advancing in the region.[20]
According to the Head of the Syrian Arab Republic delegation to Astana talks the US presence in Syria is "illegal" and "without the consent of (the) government".[21]
United States Army[edit]
This is a list of links for U.S. Army forts and installations, organized by U.S. state or territory within the U.S. and by country if overseas. For consistency, major Army National Guard (ARNG) training facilities are included but armory locations are not.
Domestic[edit]
Alabama[edit]
American Samoa[edit]
Alaska[edit]
Arizona[edit]
Arkansas[edit]
- Robinson Maneuver Training Center (ARNG)
- Fort Chaffee Maneuver Training Center (ARNG)
- Pine Bluff Arsenal
California[edit]
- Beale Air Force Base
- Camp Cooke
- Camp Haan
- Camp Roberts (ARNG)
- Camp San Luis Obispo (ARNG)
- Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento
- Fort Hunter Liggett
- Fort Irwin
- Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base
- Los Angeles AFB
- Military Ocean Terminal Concord
- Naval Air Station North Island
- Parks Reserve Forces Training Area
- Presidio of Monterey
- San Joaquin Depot[22]
- Sierra Army Depot
Colorado[edit]
- Buckley AFB
- Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station
- Fort Carson
- Fort Logan National Cemetery
- Peterson AFB
- Pueblo Chemical Depot
- Rocky Mountain Arsenal
- Schriever AFB
- US Air Force Academy
Connecticut[edit]
- Camp Nett (ARNG)
Delaware[edit]
District of Columbia[edit]
Florida[edit]
- Camp Blanding (ARNG)
- Eglin Air Force Base
- Hurlburt Field
- MacDill Air Force Base
- Patrick Space Force Base
- Tyndall Air Force Base
- Naval Air Station Jacksonville
- Naval Station Mayport
- Shades of Green (Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) Resort)
Georgia[edit]
Hawaii[edit]
- Fort DeRussy (MWR Resort)
- Fort Shafter
- Kunia Field Station
- Pohakuloa Training Area
- Schofield Barracks
- Tripler Army Medical Center
- Wheeler Army Airfield
Idaho[edit]
- MTA Gowen Field Boise (ARNG)
- Orchard Range TS Boise (ARNG)
- TS Edgemeade Mountain Home (ARNG)
Illinois[edit]
Indiana[edit]
Iowa[edit]
Kansas[edit]
- Fort Leavenworth
- Fort Riley
- Great Plains Joint Training Center (ARNG)
- Kansas Regional Training Institute (ARNG)
- Nickel Hall Barracks (ARNG)
- Smoky Hill Weapons Range (ANG)
Kentucky[edit]
Louisiana[edit]
Maine[edit]
- MTA Deepwoods (ARNG)
- MTA Riley-Bog Brook (ARNG)
- TS Caswell (ARNG)
- TS Hollis Plains (ARNG)
Maryland[edit]
- Aberdeen Proving Ground
- Camp Fretterd Military Reservation (ARNG)
- Fort Detrick
- Fort George G. Meade
- Joint Base Andrews
Massachusetts[edit]
Michigan[edit]
- Camp Grayling (ARNG)
- Detroit Arsenal
- Fort Custer (ARNG)
Minnesota[edit]
- Camp Ripley (ARNG)
Mississippi[edit]
Missouri[edit]
Montana[edit]
- Fort William Henry Harrison (ARNG)
Nebraska[edit]
- Camp Ashland (ARNG)
Nevada[edit]
New Hampshire[edit]
New Jersey[edit]
New Mexico[edit]
New York[edit]
- Camp Smith (New York) (ARNG)
- Fort Drum
- Fort Hamilton
- United States Military Academy
- Watervliet Arsenal
North Carolina[edit]
North Dakota[edit]
- Camp Grafton (ARNG)
Ohio[edit]
- Camp Perry (ARNG)
- Camp Ravenna Joint Military Training Center (ARNG)
- Camp Sherman (ARNG)
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Oklahoma[edit]
Oregon[edit]
- Camp Rilea (ARNG)
Pennsylvania[edit]
- Carlisle Barracks
- Fort Indiantown Gap (ARNG)
- Harrisburg Military Post (ARNG)
- Letterkenny Army Depot
- New Cumberland Army Depot
- Tobyhanna Army Depot
Puerto Rico[edit]
- Army National Guard Aviation Support Facility (ARNG)
- Camp Santiago (ARNG)
- Fort Allen (ARNG)
- Fort Buchanan
- Roosevelt Roads Army Reserve Base
Rhode Island[edit]
- Camp Fogarty (East Greenwich, RI) (ARNG)
- Camp Varnum (ARNG)
- Fort Greene (USAR)
South Carolina[edit]
- Fort Jackson (Army Basic Training Center)
- McCrady Training Center (ARNG)
- Charleston Air Force Base (part of Joint Base Charleston - AF/USN)
- McEntire Joint National Guard Base (ARNG/ANG)
- South Carolina National Guard Training Center at Rock Hill
- Clarks Hill Training Center (ARNG)
South Dakota[edit]
- Fort Meade (ARNG)
Tennessee[edit]
Texas[edit]
- Camp Bowie
- Camp Bullis
- Camp Mabry
- Camp Maxey
- Camp Stanley
- Camp Swift
- Corpus Christi Army Depot
- Fort Bliss
- Fort Hood
- Fort Sam Houston, part of Joint Base San Antonio
- Fort Wolters (ARNG)
- Martindale Army Airfield
- Red River Army Depot
Utah[edit]
Vermont[edit]
Virginia[edit]
- Camp Pendleton State Military Reservation (ARNG)
- Fort A.P. Hill
- Fort Belvoir
- Fort Eustis, part of Joint Base Langley-Eustis
- Fort Lee
- Fort McNair (part of Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall)
- Fort Myer (part of Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall)
- Fort Pickett (ARNG)
- The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School
- Quantico Military Reservation
- National Ground Intelligence Center
- Radford Army Ammunition Plant
- Warrenton Training Center
Washington[edit]
- Camp Murray (ANG/ARNG)
- Fort Lewis, part of Joint Base Lewis-McChord
- Yakima Training Center
West Virginia[edit]
Wisconsin[edit]
- Fort McCoy
- Camp Williams (ARNG)
Wyoming[edit]
Overseas[edit]
Belgium[edit]
Bosnia-Herzegovina[edit]
- NATO Headquarters Sarajevo
Bulgaria[edit]
- Aitos Logistics Center, Burgas Province
- Bezmer Air Base, Yambol Province
- Graf Ignatievo Air Base, Plovdiv Province
- Novo Selo Range, Sliven Province
Cameroon[edit]
Germany[edit]
- Bleidorn Housing Area, Ansbach
- Dagger Complex, Darmstadt Training Center Griesheim (scheduled to close in 2015)
- Edelweiss Lodge and Resort, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- Lucius D. Clay Kaserne (formerly Wiesbaden Army Airfield), Wiesbaden-Erbenheim
- Germersheim Army Depot, Germersheim
- Grafenwöhr Training Area, Grafenwöhr/Vilseck
- Hohenfels Training Area/Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfels (Upper Palatinate)
- Husterhoeh Kaserne, Pirmasens
- Kaiserslautern Military Community
- Katterbach Kaserne, Ansbach
- Kelley Barracks, Stuttgart
- Kleber Kaserne, Kaiserslautern Military Community
- Lampertheim Training Area, Lampertheim (scheduled to close in 2015)
- Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl
- McCully Barracks, Wackernheim
- Miesau Army Depot, Miesau
- Oberdachstetten Storage Area, Ansbach
- Panzer Kaserne, Stuttgart
- Patch Barracks, Stuttgart
- Pulaski Barracks, Kaiserslautern
- Rhine Ordnance Barracks, Kaiserslautern
- Robinson Barracks, Stuttgart
- Rose Barracks, Vilseck
- Sembach Kaserne, Kaiserslautern
- Sheridan Barracks, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- Shipton Kaserne, Ansbach
- Smith Barracks, Baumholder
- Storck Barracks, Illesheim
- Stuttgart Army Airfield, Filderstadt
- Mainz-Kastel Storage Station (scheduled to close in 2015)
- USAG Wiesbaden Military Training Area, Mainz, Gonsenheim/Mombach
- USAG Wiesbaden Training Area, Mainz Finthen Airport
- USAG Wiesbaden Radar Station, Mainz Finthen Airport
- Urlas Housing and Shopping Complex, Ansbach (converted from Urlas Training Area in 2010-2011)
Israel[edit]
- Dimona Radar Facility - an American-operated radar facility in the Negev. As of 2012, it is staffed by approximately 100 US military personnel.[29]
Italy[edit]
Iraq[edit]
Japan[edit]
Kosovo[edit]
Kuwait[edit]
- Camp Arifjan
- Camp Buehring (formerly Camp Udairi)
- Camp Patriot (shared with Kuwait Naval Base)
- Camp Spearhead (shared with port of Ash Shuaiba)
South Korea[edit]
United States Marine Corps[edit]
Domestic[edit]
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Overseas[edit]
Germany[edit]
- Camp Panzer Kaserne, Böblingen
Japan[edit]
- Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa
- Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture
- Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler, Okinawa (Note: the following camps are dispersed throughout Okinawa but are all under the administration of the MCB complex.)
South Korea[edit]
- Camp Mujuk[30]
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Domestic[edit]
Overseas[edit]
United States Air Force[edit]
Domestic[edit]
Overseas[edit]
Aruba[edit]
- Queen Beatrix International Airport (Cooperative Security Location of U.S. Southern Command)
British Indian Ocean Territory[edit]
Curaçao[edit]
- Hato International Airport (Cooperative Security Location of U.S. Southern Command)
Estonia[edit]
Germany[edit]
Honduras[edit]
Italy[edit]
Japan[edit]
Kenya[edit]
Kuwait[edit]
Netherlands[edit]
Poland[edit]
Portugal (Azores)[edit]
Qatar[edit]
Romania[edit]
South Korea[edit]
Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia[edit]
Spain[edit]
Turkey[edit]
United Kingdom[edit]
United States Space Force[edit]
Domestic[edit]
- Buckley Space Force Base, Colorado
- Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
- Cape Cod Space Force Station, Massachusetts
- Cavalier Space Force Station, North Dakota
- Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station, Colorado
- Clear Space Force Station, Alaska
- Kaena Point Space Force Station, Hawaii
- New Boston Space Force Station, New Hampshire
- Patrick Space Force Base, Florida
- Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado
- Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado
- Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
Overseas[edit]
Greenland (Denmark)[edit]
United States Coast Guard[edit]
Domestic[edit]
Domestic[edit]
- Marine Safety Detachment Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
- Marine Safety Detachment American Samoa
Overseas[edit]
See also[edit]
- Base Realignment and Closure
- United States military deployments
- List of United States drone bases
- Lists of military installations
Notes[edit]
- ^ What are here termed "named bases" are the bases listed in section X: "Personnel Data from DMDC", i.e. excluding that table's rows labelled "Other", in the 2015 DoD Base Structure Report.
- ^ The 2015 U.S. Base Structure Report gives 587 overseas sites, but sites are merely real property at a distinct geographical location, and multiple sites may belong to one installation (page DoD-3). For example, the Garmisch, Germany "named base" with its 72 personnel has eight distinct sites large enough to be listed in the Army's Individual Service Inventory list: Artillery Kaserne, Breitenau Skeet Range, Garmisch Family Housing, Garmish Golf Course, General Abrams Hotel And Disp, Hausberg Ski Area, Oberammergau NATO School, and Sheridan Barracks (listed in Army-15 to Army-17). These range in size from Ramstein AB with 9,188 active, guard/reserve, and civilian personnel down to Worms, which has just one civilian.
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Department of Defense / Base Structure Report / FY 2015 Baseline" (PDF). Retrieved October 10, 2016.
- ^ Vine, David (July 16, 2012). "The Pentagon's New Generation of Secret Military Bases". Mother Jones. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
- ^ Chalmers Johnson (January 2004). "America's Empire of Bases".
- ^ "The US Military Presence in Australia: Asymmetrical Alliance Cooperation and its Alternatives | The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus". apjjf.org.
- ^ "America's military presence is growing in Australia. That might not be a good thing". NewsComAu. October 1, 2016.
- ^ http://www.defence.gov.au/Whitepaper/AtAGlance/Key-Enablers.asp
- ^ "U.S. Completes Troop-Level Drawdown in Afghanistan, Iraq". January 15, 2021. Retrieved July 15, 2021.
- ^ "US to Set Up 5 Military Bases in Iraqi Kurdistan Region". farsnews. July 18, 2016.
- ^ "بالانفوغراف.. تعرف على الجنود والقواعد الامريكية في العراق" (in Arabic). alsumaria. February 8, 2018.
- ^ "Trump' Syria Troop Withdrawal Complicated Plans for al-Baghdadi Raid - The New York Times". The New York Times. October 27, 2019. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
- ^ "Remarks by President Trump to Troops at Al Asad Air Base, Al Anbar Province, Iraq". whitehouse.gov. December 26, 2018 – via National Archives.
- ^ a b c Müller-Jung, Friederike (November 23, 2016). "US drone war expands to Niger". Deutsche Welle.
An additional US base in Arlit, about 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Agadez, has been operating for about a year, but little is known about it, Moore said, except that special forces are presumably stationed there.
- ^ Taub, Ben (January 28, 2018). "Ben Taub on Twitter: "Secret military base near Arlit, Niger, revealed as a white dot in a sea of black, because Western soldiers didn't turn off their Fitbits". Twitter via the Internet Archive. Archived from the original on January 28, 2018. Retrieved December 15, 2018.
- ^ Lewis, David; Bavier, Joe. Boulton, Ralph (ed.). "U.S. deaths in Niger highlight Africa military mission creep". Reuters.
In missions run out of a base in the northern Niger town of Arlit and others like the one that led to the ambush of U.S. troops, sources say they have helped local troops and intelligence agents make several arrests.
- ^ Raghavan, Sudarsan; Whitlock, Craig (November 24, 2017). "A city in Niger worries a new U.S. drone base will make it a 'magnet' for terrorists". The Washington Post.
- ^ "Russia and U.S. engage in military base race in Syria". defensenews.com. January 15, 2018. Retrieved February 2, 2018.
- ^ "Anadolu Agency's map of U.S. bases in Syria infuriates The Pentagon". orient-news.net. July 20, 2017. Retrieved February 2, 2018.
- ^ "US troops leaving Syria will go to Iraq, says Pentagon chief". BBC News. October 20, 2019.
- ^ "Assad Forces Surge Forward in Syria as U.S. Pulls Back". The New York Times. October 14, 2019.
- ^ "Trump Said to Favor Leaving a Few Hundred Troops in Eastern Syria". The New York Times. October 20, 2019.
- ^ "Update-al-Jaafari: We demand immediate and unconditional withdrawal of foreign forces from Syrian territory". December 22, 2017.
- ^ DIANE Publishing Company (October 1, 1995). Defense Base Closure And Realignment Commission: Report To The President 1995. DIANE Publishing. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-7881-2461-7.
- ^ "DDJC - Sharpe" (PDF). Superfund. Environmental Protection Agency. October 2003. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 June 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
- ^ Dawn Bohulano Mabalon (May 29, 2013). Little Manila Is in the Heart: The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California. Duke University Press. p. 233. ISBN 978-0-8223-9574-4.
- ^ Carol A. Jensen (2006). Byron Hot Springs. Arcadia Publishing. p. 104. ISBN 978-0-7385-4700-8.
- ^ "Historic Posts, Camps, Stations, and Airfields, Tracy Facility, Defense Distribution Depot San Joaquin". californiamilitaryhistory.org. The California State Military Museum. Archived from the original on March 13, 2018. Retrieved September 11, 2018.
- ^ "Delaware National Guard 2011 Lottery for the Use of the Bethany Beach Training Site" (PDF). Delaware National Guard. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 May 2011. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
- ^ Kimmons, Sean (November 27, 2017). "Isolated from US military, small Army post looks to rid terrorism in West Africa". Army News Service.
- ^ Vick, Karl; Klein, Aaron J. (May 30, 2012). "How a U.S. Radar Station in the Negev Affects a Potential Israel-Iran Clash". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved October 27, 2018.
- ^ "MCI Camp Mujuk, Republic of Korea". www.mcipac.marines.mil.
- ^ "NSA Annapolis". cnic.navy.mil. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
- ^ Allison, George (November 14, 2020). "US Navy aircraft using Glasgow Prestwick Airport for patrols". UK Defence Journal. Retrieved July 11, 2021.
- ^ USAF move out of Mildenhall delayed by two years, BBC News. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
- ^ Laming, Tim (2000). UK Airports and Airfields. Ramsbury UK: Airlife Publishing (Crowood Press). pp. 106–107. ISBN 1-85310-978-9.
Further reading[edit]
- Deppen, Patterson (August 19, 2021). "The All-American Base World; 750 U.S. Military Bases Still Remain Around the Planet". TomDispatch. Retrieved August 21, 2021.
- Johnson, Chalmers (July 13, 2009). "Empire of Bases" (Opinion). The New York Times. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
- Johnson, Chalmers (2004). "The Sorrows of Empire: Imperialism, Militarism, and the End of the Republic" (PDF). Asia Papers. Sigur Center Asia Paper Number 19. The George Washington University. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
- Vine, David (2015). Base Nation. New York: Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 9781627791694. Retrieved August 21, 2021.
- Vine, David (2020). The United States of War (Hardcover ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520300873. Retrieved August 21, 2021.
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- Depart. of Defense, Base Structure Report(PDF) FY 2009 Baseline
- List of U.S. Bases Across the World, Bases listed along with data points
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