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Killeen and their surviving families and friends. As the largest military installation in the free world, Fort Hood has long been a source of pride for Texans and all Americans," Cornyn said in a Nov. Media accounts often put Fort Hood and "largest" in the same sentence. But we wondered if they — and Cornyn — have that right. Cornyn spokesman Drew Brandewie sent us a November 2. Reuters news story that says as much: "Occupying 3.
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ABC News dubbed it the largest military facility in the world, the Telegraph called it the largest U. S. military base in the world, and the Austin American- Statesman has referred to it as both the nation's largest military installation and one of the world's largest military installations. The Army's Fort Hood website says that "like the state of Texas, Fort Hood is big and boasts of being the largest active- duty armored post in the United States Armed Services." According to a fact sheet issued Aug. Fort Hood Public Affairs Office: "Fort Hood is the largest single site employer in Texas, directly inserting nearly $3 billion annually into the Texas economy." And "the largest combat aviation training area in the free world, comprised of 1. Fort Hood and continues west from Bell and Coryell counties to Runnels and Tom Green counties.".
Fort Hood spokeswoman Nancy Bourget told us that Fort Hood is the world's largest military post in the world at 2. Approximately 5. 2,0. Fort Hood, she said, but she said she didn't know whether that's the most soldiers stationed at a military installation in "the free world." Also, that number fluctuates: According to the August 2. Fort Hood had 4. 5,4. Next, we contacted Wendy Synder, a spokeswoman at the U. S. Department of Defense, who advised caution when talking about the largest military installation in the world."There are different installations that support various services, based on their mission and the number of people there," she said.
Are you looking at largest in terms of acreage, people assigned?" Snyder pointed us to a 2. The Naval Station in Pearl Harbor would cost the most to replace. The Nellis Air Force Range in Nevada has the most acreage. Hawthorne Army Depot in Nevada has the most buildings. But if you look at the size of the buildings, Fort Bragg (in North Carolina) has the largest square footage," said Snyder. We also called John Pike, director at Global.
Security. org, a nonpartisan Virginia- based company that specializes in information about defense and the military. His yardstick: The number of service members assigned to each installation. Pike pointed to California's Fort Irwin as an example of why you shouldn't gauge the size of an installation by acreage: it spans 6. They've only got a few thousand people stationed there, but the facility is gigantic because the brigades have to go and play army," he said. So we wondered which installation has the largest military population. Air Force spokesman Dan Elkins told us that Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio is the largest with 8,4.
Ramstein Air Base in Germany (7,6. Langley Air Force Base in Virginia (7,3. Lt. Gregory Wolf told us that Camp Lejeune in North Carolina and Camp Pendleton in California have the most Marine Corps personnel, with approximately 4. Marines and sailors stationed at each. A Navy lieutenant didn't respond to our query of the largest Naval station in the world as we were finishing this story, but according to Global.
Security. org Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia is the largest military station in the world "based on supported military population." The 2. Department of Defense report shows that as of September 2.
Norfolk had 3. 9,6. Lt. Col. Alayne Conway, a spokeswoman with the Army, told us that Fort Bragg and Fort Hood are the Army's largest installations, but that their numbers fluctuate, meaning that one day Bragg could have more personnel than Hood, and another day, Hood more than Bragg. The Defense Department report shows that as of September 2. Fort Bragg had 5.
Fort Hood's 5. 2,3. Tom Mc. Collum, another spokesman at Fort Bragg, told us that the current population at Fort Bragg is about 5. Count in civilian employees and families and the installation's population kicks up to about 9. So, what about Fort Hood's bragging rights? In terms of its total acreage, Fort Hood isn't the largest military installation in the world. By a more meaningful gauge — the size of the military population stationed there — Fort Hood is currently second only to Fort Bragg.
However, the exact number of soldiers at both posts is always fluctuating, and at times Fort Hood is the largest. We rate Cornyn's statement as Half True.