“The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers brings a lot of expertise about base camp master planning training and in the many years that SETAF-AF has been working with the GAF, we have also benefited ...

“I think most people familiar with the history of Fort McCoy are aware there was a World War II POW camp on base, but few likely know much about it and even fewer likely know about the story of ...

The camp was made up of 21 tunnels, spanning a total length of 9,800 feet. Officially, it was a research facility run by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, but the camp also had strategic military ...

Back in 1959, the Army Corp of Engineers carved its own Echo Base into the Greenland ice as a testbed for launching nuclear missiles from Arctic locations. The base was abandoned in 1967, but a ...

The US Army’s base in El Paso, Texas — Fort Bliss — has been chosen as a site to detain and house potentially thousands of migrants, and contracts have already been signed to start the ...

An Aug. 28, 1942 article in The Real McCoy newspaper said the barrack’s first occupants were Camp McCoy’s military police, according to an Army release. In 1942, the base built more than 1,500 ...

Jun 13, 2025 Jun 13, 2025 Updated Jun 17, 2025 In the flurry of January 1942, weeks after the U.S. declared war on Japan, the first building went up on what was then called Camp Carson, just south ...

Back in 1959, the Army Corp of Engineers carved its own Echo Base into the Greenland ice as a testbed for launching nuclear missiles from Arctic locations. The base was abandoned in 1967, but a ...