Major U.S. Military Installations

1.Pentagon

Arlington, Virginia

est. 1943 · 583 acres — DoD headquarters in Arlington; world's largest office building; symbolic and operational nerve center of the entire U.S. military.

2.United States Military Academy

West Point, New York

est. 1802 · 16K acres — Army's West Point; oldest U.S. service academy, commissioning officers since 1802; iconic Hudson River campus and national landmark.

3.United States Naval Academy

Annapolis, Maryland

est. 1845 · 338 acres — Navy's Annapolis academy; commissions Navy and Marine officers; historic Bancroft Hall and Chapel; premier officer-training institution.

4.United States Air Force Academy

Colorado Springs, Colorado

est. 1954 · 19K acres — Air Force/Space Force officer academy near Colorado Springs; famed Cadet Chapel; trains future aviation and space leaders.

5.Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam

Honolulu, Hawaii

est. 1899 · 13K acres — Navy/Air Force joint base; site of 1941 attack and USS Arizona Memorial; Pacific Fleet homeport and strategic hub.

6.Naval Station Norfolk

Norfolk, Virginia

est. 1917 · 5K acres — World's largest naval base; homeport for Atlantic Fleet carriers and ships; supports NATO and global naval operations.

7.Fort Liberty (Fort Bragg)

Fayetteville, North Carolina

est. 1918 · 161K acres — Army's airborne and special-operations hub; home of 82nd Airborne and Delta/SOCOM; among the largest U.S. military bases.

8.White Sands Missile Range

White Sands, New Mexico

est. 1945 · 2.0M acres — Army's largest U.S. installation; Trinity atomic-bomb site; premier open-air missile and directed-energy testing range.

9.Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Dayton, Ohio

est. 1917 · 8K acres — Air Force research and logistics center; home of AFMC and National Museum of the USAF; aviation birthplace heritage.

10.Camp Lejeune

Jacksonville, North Carolina

est. 1941 · 156K acres — Marine Corps' premier East Coast amphibious training base; home of II Marine Expeditionary Force; major Atlantic-coast installation.

11.Camp Pendleton

Oceanside, California

est. 1942 · 125K acres — Marine Corps Pacific amphibious-training base near Oceanside; trains I MEF Marines; one of the busiest U.S. military bases.

12.Naval Base San Diego

San Diego, California

est. 1922 · 2K acres — Navy's principal Pacific Fleet surface-ship homeport; largest naval base on the West Coast; major San Diego waterfront installation.

13.Joint Base Lewis-McChord

Tacoma, Washington

est. 1917 · 414K acres — Army/Air Force joint base near Tacoma; I Corps and airlift wing; one of the largest military installations on the West Coast.

14.Fort Hood (Fort Cavazos)

Killeen, Texas

est. 1942 · 214K acres — Army's premier armored-forces post; home of III Armored Corps; among the largest U.S. military installations by population.

15.Fort Bliss

El Paso, Texas

est. 1849 · 1.1M acres — Army air-defense and maneuver hub near El Paso; 1st Armored Division; one of the largest installations by area.

16.Nellis Air Force Base

Las Vegas, Nevada

est. 1941 · 11K acres — Air Force advanced-combat-training center; hosts Red Flag exercises and the Thunderbirds; gateway to the vast Nevada Test and Training Range.

17.Edwards Air Force Base

Edwards, California

est. 1933 · 308K acres — Air Force flight-test center; broke the sound barrier; Space Shuttle landings; iconic Mojave aerospace proving ground.

18.Marine Corps Base Quantico

Quantico, Virginia

est. 1917 · 55K acres — 'Crossroads of the Marine Corps'; officer training, FBI Academy, and NCIS; doctrine and education center near Washington.

19.Fort Moore (Fort Benning)

Columbus, Georgia

est. 1918 · 182K acres — Army's Maneuver Center of Excellence; home of Infantry and Armor schools and Ranger/Airborne training; major Georgia post.

20.Fort Belvoir

Fairfax County, Virginia

est. 1917 · 9K acres — Army administrative and intelligence hub near D.C.; hosts DIA, INSCOM, and major medical center; dense headquarters complex.

21.Joint Base Andrews

Camp Springs, Maryland

est. 1943 · 4K acres — Air Force base near D.C.; home of Air Force One and presidential airlift; symbolic gateway for heads of state.

22.Fort George G. Meade

Odenton, Maryland

est. 1917 · 5K acres — Army installation hosting the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command; central node of U.S. signals intelligence and cyber operations.

23.Fort Knox

Fort Knox, Kentucky

est. 1918 · 109K acres — Army post famed for the U.S. Bullion Depository; Human Resources Command and Cadet Command; iconic 'Fort Knox' gold vault.

24.Cheyenne Mountain Complex

Colorado Springs, Colorado

est. 1966 · 5 acres — Hardened NORAD command bunker inside a granite mountain; Cold War missile-warning icon; alternate space and defense command center.

25.Joint Base San Antonio

San Antonio, Texas

est. 2010 · 49K acres — DoD's largest joint base; merges Lackland, Randolph, Fort Sam Houston; basic training, pilot instruction, and military medicine.

26.Eglin Air Force Base

Valparaiso, Florida

est. 1935 · 463K acres — Air Force's largest base by area; armament development and testing; vast Florida panhandle range and Air Force test wing.

27.Vandenberg Space Force Base

Lompoc, California

est. 1941 · 99K acres — Space Force's premier West Coast launch site; polar-orbit satellites and ICBM tests; iconic Pacific spaceport.

28.Peterson Space Force Base

Colorado Springs, Colorado

est. 1942 · 1K acres — Space Force headquarters for SPACECOM and NORTHCOM; Colorado Springs space-operations hub; aerospace command center.

29.Offutt Air Force Base

Bellevue, Nebraska

est. 1896 · 4K acres — Air Force base; headquarters of U.S. Strategic Command; nuclear command-and-control hub and 'Looking Glass' airborne post.

30.Fort Leavenworth

Leavenworth, Kansas

est. 1827 · 6K acres — Army's 'Intellectual Center'; Command and General Staff College and military prison; oldest active post west of the Mississippi.

31.Fort Sill

Lawton, Oklahoma

est. 1869 · 94K acres — Army's Field Artillery and Air Defense home; historic frontier fort; Geronimo's burial site; fires center of excellence.

32.Langley Air Force Base (Joint Base Langley-Eustis)

Hampton, Virginia

est. 1916 · 3K acres — Air Force's oldest continuously active air base; home of Air Combat Command and the F-22 fighter wing.

33.Fort Campbell

Clarksville, Kentucky / Tennessee

est. 1942 · 105K acres — Army home of the 101st Airborne (Air Assault) and 5th Special Forces; major air-assault post on Kentucky-Tennessee line.

34.Naval Base Coronado

Coronado, California

est. 1917 · 6K acres — Navy base hosting West Coast carriers and Naval Special Warfare; home of Navy SEAL BUD/S training; iconic Coronado.

35.Fort Carson

Colorado Springs, Colorado

est. 1942 · 137K acres — Army's 'Mountain Post'; home of 4th Infantry Division and 10th Special Forces; large Colorado maneuver installation.

36.MacDill Air Force Base

Tampa, Florida

est. 1939 · 6K acres — Air Force base in Tampa; headquarters of CENTCOM and SOCOM; KC-135 refueling wing; strategic combatant-command hub.

37.Naval Air Station Pensacola

Pensacola, Florida

est. 1914 · 6K acres — 'Cradle of Naval Aviation'; home of the Blue Angels and Naval Aviation Museum; first U.S. naval air station.

38.Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay

Kings Bay, Georgia

est. 1979 · 16K acres — Navy's Atlantic homeport for Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarines; key sea-based nuclear deterrent installation.

39.Naval Submarine Base New London

Groton, Connecticut

est. 1868 · 687 acres — Navy's first submarine base, in Groton; 'Home of the Submarine Force' and Submarine School; attack-sub homeport.

40.Tinker Air Force Base

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

est. 1941 · 5K acres — Air Force logistics and AWACS hub near Oklahoma City; largest air-depot maintenance complex; E-3 Sentry home.

41.Hill Air Force Base

Ogden, Utah

est. 1940 · 7K acres — Air Force depot and F-35 base; major aircraft maintenance and the vast Utah Test and Training Range.

42.Naval Station Mayport

Mayport, Florida

est. 1942 · 3K acres — Navy's third-largest fleet concentration; Jacksonville-area carrier and destroyer homeport with a major harbor and airfield.

43.Barksdale Air Force Base

Bossier City, Louisiana

est. 1933 · 22K acres — Air Force B-52 bomber base; headquarters of Air Force Global Strike Command; key nuclear-bomber installation.

44.Whiteman Air Force Base

Knob Noster, Missouri

est. 1942 · 3K acres — Air Force's sole B-2 Spirit stealth-bomber base; central node of the U.S. strategic bomber deterrent.

45.Minot Air Force Base

Minot, North Dakota

est. 1957 · 5K acres — Air Force base with both B-52 bombers and Minuteman III ICBMs; rare two-leg nuclear-triad installation.

46.Fort Stewart

Hinesville, Georgia

est. 1940 · 280K acres — Army's largest installation east of the Mississippi; home of 3rd Infantry Division; major armored-maneuver training.

47.Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst

Wrightstown, New Jersey

est. 2009 · 42K acres — Tri-service mega-base joining Air Force, Army, Navy; airlift, mobilization, and the historic Hindenburg site at Lakehurst.

48.Travis Air Force Base

Fairfield, California

est. 1943 · 6K acres — 'Gateway to the Pacific'; Air Force's largest airlift and aeromedical hub; C-5, C-17 and KC-10 wings.

49.Dover Air Force Base

Dover, Delaware

est. 1941 · 4K acres — Air Force's largest strategic airlift terminal; C-5/C-17 hub and the nation's military mortuary at Port Mortuary.

50.Fort Riley

Junction City, Kansas

est. 1853 · 101K acres — Historic cavalry post; home of the 1st Infantry Division ('Big Red One'); Custer-era frontier heritage.

51.Fort Leonard Wood

Waynesville, Missouri

est. 1940 · 61K acres — Army's Maneuver Support Center; trains Engineer, Military Police, and Chemical corps; major basic-training installation.

52.Schofield Barracks

Wahiawa, Hawaii

est. 1908 · 18K acres — Army's Hawaii infantry post; home of 25th Infantry Division; featured in 'From Here to Eternity'; Pacific power-projection.

53.Redstone Arsenal

Huntsville, Alabama

est. 1941 · 38K acres — Army rocketry and missile center; cradle of U.S. space program with von Braun; hosts NASA Marshall and aviation/missile command.

54.Fort Drum

Watertown, New York

est. 1908 · 107K acres — Army's cold-weather post in upstate New York; home of the 10th Mountain Division; high-deployment light-infantry installation.

55.Maxwell Air Force Base

Montgomery, Alabama

est. 1918 · 4K acres — Air Force's 'Intellectual Center'; Air University and professional military education; doctrine and officer-development hub.

56.Naval Station Great Lakes

Great Lakes, Illinois

est. 1911 · 2K acres — Navy's only boot camp; 'Quarterdeck of the Navy'; trains every enlisted recruit; largest Navy training installation.

57.Aberdeen Proving Ground

Aberdeen, Maryland

est. 1917 · 73K acres — Army's oldest active proving ground; ordnance and materiel testing; major research, development, and engineering center.

58.Davis-Monthan Air Force Base

Tucson, Arizona

est. 1925 · 11K acres — Air Force base in Tucson; home of A-10 wing and the famous 'Boneyard' aircraft storage at AMARG.

59.Marine Corps Base Hawaii

Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii

est. 1918 · 3K acres — Marine Corps base at Kaneohe Bay; home of 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment; key Indo-Pacific expeditionary installation.

60.Fort Detrick

Frederick, Maryland

est. 1943 · 1K acres — Army's biomedical research center; USAMRIID biodefense labs; historic biological-weapons and infectious-disease research hub.

61.Naval Air Station Patuxent River

Patuxent River, Maryland

est. 1943 · 15K acres — Navy's flight-test and aircraft-development center; home of the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School and NAVAIR.

62.Naval Air Station Oceana

Virginia Beach, Virginia

est. 1943 · 7K acres — Navy's East Coast Master Jet Base; home of all Atlantic Fleet F/A-18 strike-fighter squadrons; major air station.

63.Naval Air Station Lemoore

Lemoore, California

est. 1961 · 19K acres — Navy's West Coast Master Jet Base; home of Pacific Fleet F/A-18 and F-35C squadrons; largest naval air station.

64.Naval Air Station Whidbey Island

Oak Harbor, Washington

est. 1942 · 4K acres — Navy's Pacific Northwest air station; home of EA-18G Growler electronic-attack and P-8 patrol squadrons.

65.Fort Huachuca

Sierra Vista, Arizona

est. 1877 · 73K acres — Army intelligence center; historic Buffalo Soldier post; home of the Military Intelligence school and Network Enterprise Command.

66.Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson

Anchorage, Alaska

est. 1940 · 84K acres — Air Force/Army Alaska hub near Anchorage; F-22s and airborne brigade; key Arctic and Pacific power-projection base.

67.Robins Air Force Base

Warner Robins, Georgia

est. 1942 · 7K acres — Air Force logistics depot in Georgia; major aircraft maintenance; home of the Air Force Reserve Command headquarters.

68.Scott Air Force Base

O'Fallon, Illinois

est. 1917 · 4K acres — Air Force base hosting U.S. Transportation Command and Air Mobility Command; logistics and global-mobility command center.

69.Luke Air Force Base

Glendale, Arizona

est. 1941 · 4K acres — Air Force's largest fighter-pilot training base; trains F-35 and F-16 pilots near Phoenix; key flying-training installation.

70.Keesler Air Force Base

Biloxi, Mississippi

est. 1941 · 4K acres — Air Force technical-training center in Biloxi; cyber and electronics training; home of the Hurricane Hunters.

71.Fort Eisenhower (Fort Gordon)

Augusta, Georgia

est. 1941 · 56K acres — Army's Cyber Center of Excellence; home of Army Cyber Command and the NSA Georgia signals-intelligence hub.

72.Beale Air Force Base

Marysville, California

est. 1942 · 23K acres — Air Force reconnaissance base; home of U-2 Dragon Lady and RQ-4 Global Hawk; high-altitude ISR center.

73.Malmstrom Air Force Base

Great Falls, Montana

est. 1942 · 4K acres — Air Force base controlling a Minuteman III ICBM field; key land-based leg of the U.S. nuclear triad.

74.F.E. Warren Air Force Base

Cheyenne, Wyoming

est. 1867 · 6K acres — Air Force's oldest continuously active base; Minuteman III ICBM wing; historic frontier cavalry post heritage.

75.Ellsworth Air Force Base

Box Elder, South Dakota

est. 1942 · 5K acres — Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber base; future B-21 Raider home; key conventional strategic-bomber installation.

76.Naval Air Station Jacksonville

Jacksonville, Florida

est. 1940 · 4K acres — Navy's third-largest air station; maritime-patrol P-8 and helicopter squadrons; major Southeast fleet aviation hub.

77.Eielson Air Force Base

Fairbanks, Alaska

est. 1944 · 20K acres — Air Force F-35 base in interior Alaska; hosts Red Flag-Alaska exercises over the vast JPARC training airspace.

78.Patrick Space Force Base

Cocoa Beach, Florida

est. 1940 · 2K acres — Space Force base supporting Cape Canaveral launches; Eastern Range operations; gateway to America's spaceport.

79.Buckley Space Force Base

Aurora, Colorado

est. 1941 · 4K acres — Space Force base near Denver; missile-warning and space-surveillance operations; key Space Base Delta installation.

80.Schriever Space Force Base

Colorado Springs, Colorado

est. 1983 · 4K acres — Space Force base controlling GPS and military satellites; satellite command-and-control hub near Colorado Springs.