List of American military installations

This is a list of military installations owned or used by the United States Armed Forces both in the United States and around the world. This list details only current or recently closed facilities; some defunct facilities are found at Category:Former military installations of the United States.

A military installation is the basic administrative unit into which the U.S. Department of Defense groups its infrastructure, and is statutorily defined as any "base, camp, post, station, yard, center, or other activity under the jurisdiction ... [or] operational control of the Secretary of a military department or the Secretary of Defense."^[1] An installation or group of installations may, in turn, serve as a base, which DOD defines as "a locality from which operations are projected or supported."^[2]

The U.S. military maintains hundreds of installations, both inside the United States and overseas (with at least 128 military bases located outside of its national territory as of July 2024).^[2] According to the U.S. Army, Camp Humphreys in South Korea is the largest overseas base in terms of area.^[3] Most of foreign military installations are located in NATO countries, Middle East countries, South Korea, Australia, Japan.

U.S. officials have been accused of collaborating with oppressive regimes and anti-democratic governments to secure their military bases, from Central America to the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

• The Pentagon – located in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.
• Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson – located 12 kilometers (8 miles) north of Anchorage, Alaska
• Honolulu, Hawaii
• Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst – located 29 kilometers (18 miles) south of Trenton, New Jersey
• Joint Base Charleston – located 8 kilometers (5 miles) east of North Charleston, South Carolina
• San Antonio, Texas
• Joint Base Langley-Eustis – located 12 kilometers (8 miles) east of Newport News, Virginia
• Joint Region Marianas – combines Naval Base Guam, Andersen Air Force Base and Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz all located on the U.S. territory of Guam
• Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall – located 1 kilometer (1 mile) northwest of Arlington County, Virginia
• Virginia Beach
• Joint Base Lewis-McChord – located 17 kilometers (11 miles) southwest of Tacoma, Washington
• Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling – located in Southeast Washington, D.C.
• Joint Base Andrews – located 22 kilometers (14 miles) south of Washington, D.C.

• War Reserve Stocks
  are located in many foreign states.

• Alice Springs, Northern Territory
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• 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 U.S. bases in Australia are present and this list does not include ADF bases with U.S. access. The U.S. military has access to many ADF training areas, northern Australian RAAF airfields, port facilities in Darwin, Fremantle, Stirling naval base in Perth, and the airfield on the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean.^{[9][10][11][12][13]}

• As of 2021, there were approximately 2,500 U.S. service members in Iraq.^[14] Those servicemembers were spread across several facilities in Iraq and other bases in Iraqi Kurdistan.^[15]

According to the Head of the Syrian Arab Republic delegation to Astana talks the U.S. presence in Syria is "illegal" and "without the consent of (the) government".^[22]

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.^[23]

• Camp Panzer Kaserne, Böblingen

• 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.)
  • Camp Courtney
  • Camp Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture
  • Camp Foster
  • Jungle Warfare Training Center
    )
  • Camp Hansen
  • Camp Kinser
  • Camp Lester
  • Camp McTureous
  • Camp Schwab

• Camp Mujuk^[36]

• Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center

• Naval Support Activity Bahrain

• Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia

• Guantanamo Bay Naval Base

• Camp Lemonnier

• Naval Support Activity Souda Bay

• Naval Air Station Keflavík

• Naval Support Activity Naples
• Naval Air Station Sigonella

• Naval Air Facility Atsugi
• Misawa Air Base
• Naval Forces Japan, Okinawa
• United States Fleet Activities Sasebo
• United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka

• Naval Support Facility Redzikowo^[40]

• Naval Support Facility Deveselu^[41]

• Singapore Area Coordinator^[42]
• Sembawang Naval Base

• Busan Naval Base, Busan, Gyeongnam, Korea
• Commander Fleet Activities Chinhae, Changwon, Gyeongnam, Korea

• Naval Station Rota Spain

• Clear Space Force Station, Alaska

• Los Angeles Air Force Base, California
• Vandenberg Space Force Base, California

• Buckley Space Force Base, Colorado
• Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station, Colorado
• Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado
• Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado

• Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
• Patrick Space Force Base, Florida

• Kaena Point Space Force Station, Hawaii

• Cape Cod Space Force Station, Massachusetts

• New Boston Space Force Station, New Hampshire

• Cavalier Space Force Station, North Dakota

• Ascension Island Auxiliary Airfield

• Pituffik Space Base

• Marine Safety Detachment American Samoa^{[citation needed]}
• Marine Safety Detachment Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands^{[citation needed]}

• Patrol Forces Southwest Asia
  • USCGC Charles Moulthrope
  • USCGC Robert Goldman^{[citation needed]}
  • USCGC Glen Harris
  • USCGC Emlen Tunnel^{[citation needed]}
  • USCGC Maui
  • USCGC Monomoy

• Air station Miami-Navsta Guantanamo Bay^[45]

• Maritime & International Law-U.S. Africa Command^[46]

• USCG Activities Far East^[47]

• USCG Activities Europe^[48]

• Saudi Maritime Infrastructure Protection Force^[49]

• Activities Far East-Singapore^[50]

• List of countries with overseas military bases
• Base Realignment and Closure
• United States military deployments
• List of United States drone bases
• Lists of military installations
• American imperialism
• List of wars involving the United States

• Chirico, JoAnn (2014). Globalization: Prospects and Problems. SAGE Publication Ltd. p. 71.
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• Vine, David (2017). "How U.S. Military Bases Back Dictators, Autocrats, And Military Regimes". HuffPost.

Sources

• "List of U.S. Bases Across the World". militarybases.com.

Further reading

• Deppen, Patterson (19 August 2021). "The All-American Base World; 750 U.S. Military Bases Still Remain Around the Planet". TomDispatch. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
• Johnson, Chalmers (13 July 2009). "Empire of Bases" (Opinion). The New York Times. Retrieved 5 July 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 5 July 2021.
• Vine, David (2015). Base Nation. New York: Henry Holt and Co.
  ISBN 9781627791694
  . Retrieved 21 August 2021.
• Vine, David (2020). The United States of War (Hardcover ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press.
  ISBN 9780520300873
  . Retrieved 21 August 2021.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Military bases of the United States.

• Department of Defense, Base Structure Report (PDF) FY 2018 Baseline