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On 16 June 1989 the 1st Battalion, 48th Infantry was inactivated at Gelnhausen and its personnel were re-designated and continued there as 4th Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment. On June 16, 2017, the 48th Infantry's 2nd Battalion was reactivated in a ceremony at Fort Leonard Wood , Missouri , joining the 15 April 2017 reactivated 48th Infantry ...
World War II. The 1st Engineer Amphibian Brigade was activated at Camp Edwards, Massachusetts on 15 June 1942. [1] Some 2,269 men were transferred from existing units, the 37th Engineer Combat Regiment providing the nucleus of the boat regiment, and the 87th Engineer Heavy Ponton Battalion that of the shore regiment. [1]
Fort Leonard Wood is a U.S. Army training installation located in the Missouri Ozarks. The main gate is located on the southern boundary of the city of St. Robert. The post was created in December 1940 and named in honor of General Leonard Wood (former Chief of Staff) in January 1941. Originally intended to train infantry troops, in 1941 it ...
Frankfurt Army Regional Medical Center (1995) Gorgas Army Hospital, Canal Zone (1997) Hawley Army Hospital, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, 30 September 1995 [14] [15] Letterman Army Medical Center, Presidio of San Francisco, California, 1994. McCornack General Hospital, Pasadena, California (1949).
Camp Funston. Coordinates: 39°05′46″N 96°43′35″W. Soldiers ill with Spanish influenza at a hospital ward at Camp Funston, Kansas, when the epidemic began in 1918. Camp Funston is a U.S. Army training camp located on Fort Riley, southwest of Manhattan, Kansas. The camp was named for Brigadier General Frederick Funston (1865–1917).
The United States Army CBRN School (USACBRNS), located at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, is a primary American training school specializing in military Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) defense. [1] until 2008, it was known as the United States Army Chemical School .
The 3rd Chemical Brigade was first constituted on 1 January 1942 as the 3rd Chemical Battalion. [2] It was activated at Fort Benning, Georgia . The unit was reorganized and redesignated as the 3rd Chemical Mortar Battalion on 11 March 1945. It was inactivated on 2 January 1946 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia .
USS Leonard Wood (APA-12) was built by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation and launched 17 September 1921 at Sparrows Point, Maryland as Nutmeg State, an Emergency Fleet Corporation Design 1029 ship intended as a World War I troop transport, but redesigned upon the armistice as a passenger and cargo ship and completed as Western World for delivery to the United States Shipping Board.