Training / Testing / Bombing Range
Spread out along 20 miles of Chesapeake Bay, Aberdeen Proving Ground is home to a diverse array of weapons development and testing programs. The installation covers 72,516 acres, ranging from heavily industrialized areas (the base has over 2,000 buildings) to remote testing ranges on peninsulas,...
The southeastern New Mexican town of Artesia is the location for one of the principal campuses of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). The FLETC, headquartered in Glynco, Georgia, serves as a law enforcement training organization for more than 80 Federal agencies, and also provides...
A 47,000-acre live bombing range, with stationary and mobile targets. Used by the Navy, flying out of Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, 345 miles away, north of Seattle. Undergoing remediation.
One of five training ranges used by Fallon Naval Air Station, along with a few other Naval aviation installations. There are vehicles and other target material on the range.
One of five training ranges used by Fallon Naval Air Station, and a few other Naval aviation installations. There is a three-quarter size industrial area with numerous buildings, and other target and training material on the range.
One of five training ranges used by Fallon Naval Air Station, along with a few other Naval aviation installations. There are vehicles and other target material on the range.
One of five training ranges used by Fallon Naval Air Station, along with a few other Naval aviation installations. There are vehicles and other target material on the range.
Camp Billy Machen is a new Navy SEAL desert warfare training facility, located on the edge of the Chocolate Mountains, next to Slab City, itself a former military base.
One of the major Marine Corps bases in the country, located on the Pacific Ocean between Los Angeles and San Diego, with Interstate 5 traveling through its western flank. Training takes place by Army, Navy and Marine units throughout the rolling hills of the 126,000 acre base. Amphibious and sea-to...
This 43,000 acre base in Central California is used by all branches of the armed forces, but is considered primarily to be a National Guard training base. The hilly interior is used as an aerial gunnery range by the Army. The installation is also used by various Defense organizations and civilian...
Camp San Luis Obispo is primarily a National Guard Reserve Center. The eight square mile restricted area covers mountainous terrain and serves as a training ground for several local, state, and federal agencies. The installation was once part of a federal Army post that extended as far as the ocean...
Home of the U.S. Army War College, an advanced academic training institution, and a garrison of soldiers, which make up most of the base population of nearly 3,000. There are 217 acres of offices, classrooms, and historic structures near Harrisburg.
In 2010 Cecil Field became the eighth licensed commercial spaceport in the country, and is now being developed for use as a horizontal take-off and landing space launching site. The feild is a former Naval Air Station, closed in 1999, with most of its activity transferred to the Naval Air Station...
A WWII airfield, now used by the Charlestown Air Force Base, located 85 miles to the south. The 1,400-acre site has a fire station, and a few support structures, and is used as a supply drop zone for training purposes. It is also used by special operations as a training site.
A vast weapons development facility and testing range. Almost every munition in the US arsenal has been tested within this 1,723 square mile (more than a million acre) facility. Numerous laboratories and test ranges, located mostly in the north area of China Lake, support weapons development. In...
The Desert Test Range is a restricted area used for target practice by the Marine Corps and the Navy. It is administered by the Yuma Marine Corps Air Station in Arizona. Several targets are located within the restricted area, which is on the west side of the Imperial Valley. Target 101 is the main...
The nation's primary chemical and biological weapons testing and training site, Dugway Proving Ground is a unique defense site that combines the microscopic world of its chemical and biological laboratories with large-scale testing and training. The land within Dugway's 800,000 secured acres of...
Edwards Air Force Base is an active Air Force Base, which serves the aeronautic defense industry through several facilities located within the 301,000 acre secured base perimeter. Much of these facilities are located on the western edge of Rogers Dry Lake, a naturally flat 44-square mile landing...
Eglin is one of the Air Force's largest bases, and is a major test center for non-nuclear munitions. Located on the coast of the panhandle of Florida, the base covers 724 square miles of land, and has 97,963 miles of water ranges in the Gulf. Facilities include: a climatic laboratory, capable of...
Air Force Base with 22,035 acres, and an additional 40,052 acres of "operating areas." Around 3,000 employees. Air-to-ground training on its vast ranges (which are used in the Red Flag exercises). Supply base for Distant Early Warning radar sites, and experimental ice stations on the Arctic Ocean.
Vermont has one full-fledged military range, the Ethan Allan Firing Range, near Underhill Center. Owned by the Army, the 11,000 acre range was first established in the 1920s, and was developed as a major gun testing range by General Electric in the 1950s. It is now used by around 20,000 trainees a...
An active and reserve forces training base used by numerous federal and state agencies. There are 31 training areas, 40 firing ranges, 13 demolition sites, tank maneuver areas, aerial gunnery complexes, an urban warfare training complex, and numerous mortar firing positions within the 76,000 acre...
Location of field laboratories for the United States Army Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC), headquartered at the Detroit Arsenal, in Michigan. At Fort Belvoir, research, development and engineering for TARDEC are conducted in military bridging, fuels, lubricants...
These 182,000 acres of wooded and muddied ground are training and maneuver areas for the infantry. One of the busiest military bases in the country, 25,000 people work full time at this base, which accomodates thousands of trainees every day. Also located here is the School of the Americas, which...
Fort Bliss is an artillery testing and training installation, and with 1,119,700 acres, one of the largest Army posts in the country. While the main post and cantonment area is located north of El Paso, most of the land crosses the state line into New Mexico, and is adjacent to White Sands Missile...
One of the largest and most active military bases in the eastern USA, Fort Bragg is an Army base in south-central North Carolina. The installation consists of 142,125 acres, much of which is used for ground/air training, with a large cantonment area adjacent to Pope Air Force Base, at the eastern...
A large Army Training center, with 105,000 acres of maneuver areas, training courses, artillary ranges, drop zones and impact areas. Specializes in air assault training, where soldiers and equipment are often dispatched to forward areas in enemy territory via helicopter. The base employs around 27,...
Fort Chaffee is a 100-square-mile rural installation used as a training base for the National Guard and reserve forces. It was the home of the Army's Joint Readiness Training Center before being severely realigned in 1991. Built in 1941, this 72,000-acre military base was the training site for...
Though officially decommissioned in the early 1990's, Fort Devens still has a large military presence, and a legacy of clean up issues on the property slated for redevelopment. Some industries, including Gillette and Parker Aerospace, have already constructed manufacturing and distribution...
A 107,265-acre base in upstate New York, home of light infantry mountain units, and used in the training of almost 80,000 troops a year. From 1986 to 1992, $1.3 billion in improvements were performed on the base, including new housing units and roads, to accomodate increased usage. The main post...