Military bases operated by the U.S. Armed Forces
US Military Bases Map Foreign bases of the United States This is alist of military installations owned or used by theUnited States Armed Forces both in theUnited States and around the world. This list details only current or recently closed facilities; some defunct facilities are found atCategory:Former military installations of the United States .
A military installation is the basic administrative unit into which theU.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] [ 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] [ 3] NATO countries,Middle East countries,South Korea ,Australia , andJapan .
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.[ 4] Democracy Index classifies many of the forty-five current non-democratic U.S. base hosts as fully "authoritarian governments".[ 4] Cold War by the U.S. as a necessary if undesirable condition in defending against the communist threat posed by theSoviet Union . Few of these bases have been abandoned since theend of the Cold War .[ 5]
Several rounds of closures and mergers have occurred since theend of World War II , a procedure most recently known asBase Realignment and Closure .Anti-racist agitation in the early 2020s led to calls for changing bases to remove the names ofConfederate figures who fought against theUnion during theAmerican Civil War .[ 6] National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021,[ 7] [ 8]
Countries with United States military bases and facilities[needs update Domestic joint bases [ edit ] The Pentagon – located inArlington County, Virginia , across thePotomac River fromWashington, D.C. Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson – located 12 kilometers (8 miles) north ofAnchorage, Alaska Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam – located 11 kilometers (7 miles) northwest ofHonolulu, Hawaii Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst – located 29 kilometers (18 miles) south ofTrenton, New Jersey Joint Base Charleston – located 8 kilometers (5 miles) east ofNorth Charleston, South Carolina Joint Base San Antonio – located 8 kilometers (5 miles) north ofSan Antonio, Texas Joint Base Langley-Eustis – located 12 kilometers (8 miles) east ofNewport News, Virginia Joint Region Marianas – combinesNaval Base Guam ,Andersen Air Force Base andMarine Corps Base Camp Blaz all located on the U.S. territory of GuamJoint Base Myer-Henderson Hall – located 1 kilometer (1 mile) northwest ofArlington County, Virginia Joint Expeditionary Base–Little Creek – located 20 kilometers (13 miles) northwest ofVirginia Beach Joint Base Lewis-McChord – located 17 kilometers (11 miles) southwest ofTacoma, Washington Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling – located inSoutheast Washington, D.C. Joint Base Andrews – located 22 kilometers (14 miles) south ofWashington, D.C. Joint Forces Training Base – Los Alamitos - located inLos Alamitos, California (ARNG/USAR)Foreign joint bases [ edit ] Australia joint bases [ edit ] Pine Gap – Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap (JDFPG), nearAlice Springs ,Northern Territory .Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt – located on the northwest coast of Australia, 6 kilometres (4 mi) north of the town ofExmouth, Western Australia .Robertson Barracks – located inDarwin, Northern Territory .Australian Defence Satellite Communications Station – located nearKojarena 30 km east ofGeraldton, Western Australia .Other U.S. bases inAustralia are present and this list does not includeADF bases with U.S. access. TheU.S. military has access to many ADF training areas,northern Australian RAAF airfields, port facilities inDarwin ,Fremantle ,Stirling naval base in Perth , and the airfield on theCocos Islands in the Indian Ocean.[ 9] [ 10] [ 11] [ 12] [ 13] As of 2021, there were approximately 2,500 U.S. service members inIraq .[ 14] Iraq and other bases inIraqi Kurdistan .[ 15] Landing zone atAl-Tanf ,Syria There were approximately 1,500–2,000 U.S. forces inSyria , spread across 12 different facilities, being used as training bases for Kurdish rebels.[ 16] [ 17] Syria to western Iraq in October 2019.[ 18] New York Times Pentagon was planning to "leave 150 Special Operations forces at a base calledal-Tanf ", where theUnited States is trainingFree Syrian Army rebels.[ 19] Islamic State ,Syrian government andRussian forces from advancing in the region.[ 20]
According to the Head of the Syrian Arab Republic delegation toAstana talks the U.S. presence in Syria is "illegal" and "without the consent of (the) government".[ 21]
This is a list of links forU.S. Army forts and installations, organized byU.S. state or territory within the U.S. and by country if overseas. For consistency, majorArmy National Guard (ARNG) training facilities are included butarmory locations are not.[ 22]
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