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, and 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.[4] The Democracy Index classifies many of the forty-five current non-democratic U.S. base hosts as fully "authoritarian governments".[4] Military bases in non-democratic states were often rationalized during the Cold War by the U.S. as a necessary if undesirable condition in defending against the communist threat posed by the Soviet Union. Few of these bases have been abandoned since the end of the Cold War.[5]

Several rounds of closures and mergers have occurred since the end of World War II, a procedure most recently known as Base Realignment and Closure. Anti-racist agitation in the early 2020s led to calls for changing bases to remove the names of Confederate figures who fought against the Union during the American Civil War.[6] The Naming Commission was created by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021,[7] and renaming began in December 2022.[8]

Domestic bases

Domestic joint bases

United States Army

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.[9]

Alabama army bases

American Samoa army bases

  • Pele U.S. Army Reserve Center & Coast Guard Marine Safety Detachment Samoa

Alaska army bases

Arizona army bases

Arkansas army bases

California army bases

Colorado army bases

Connecticut army bases

  • Camp Nett (ARNG)

Delaware army bases

  • Bethany Beach Training Site (ARNG)[15]

District of Columbia army bases

Florida army bases

Georgia army bases

Hawaii army bases

Idaho army bases

Illinois army bases

Indiana army bases

Iowa army bases

Kansas army bases

Kentucky army bases

Louisiana army bases

Maine army bases

  • MTA Deepwoods (ARNG)[16]
  • MTA Riley-Bog Brook (ARNG)
  • TS Caswell (ARNG)
  • TS Hollis Plains (ARNG)[17]

Maryland army bases

Massachusetts army bases

Michigan army bases

Minnesota army bases

Mississippi army bases

Missouri army bases

Montana army bases

Nebraska army bases

Nevada army bases

New Hampshire army bases

New Jersey army bases

New Mexico army bases

New York army bases

North Carolina army bases

North Dakota army bases

Ohio army bases

Oklahoma army bases

Oregon army bases

Pennsylvania army bases

Puerto Rico army bases

Rhode Island army bases

South Carolina army bases

South Dakota army bases

Tennessee army bases

Texas army bases

See also: William Beaumont Army Medical Center

Utah army bases

Vermont army bases

Virginia army bases

Washington army bases

West Virginia army bases

See also: Sugar Grove Station

Wisconsin army bases

Wyoming army bases

  • Guernsey Maneuver Area (ARNG)

United States Marine Corps

Main article: List of United States Marine Corps installations

United States Navy

Main article: List of United States Navy installations

California naval bases

Connecticut naval bases

Florida naval bases

Georgia naval bases

Guam naval bases

Hawaii naval bases

Illinois naval bases

Indiana naval bases

Louisiana naval bases

Maine naval bases

Maryland naval bases

Mississippi naval bases

Nevada naval bases

New Jersey naval bases

New York naval bases

North Dakota naval bases

Oregon naval bases

Pennsylvania naval bases

Puerto Rico naval bases

Rhode Island naval bases

South Carolina naval bases

Tennessee naval bases

Texas naval bases

Virginia naval bases

Washington naval bases

Washington, D.C. naval bases

United States Air Force

Main article: List of United States Air Force installations

Alabama air force bases

Alaska air force bases

Arizona air force bases

Arkansas air force bases

California air force bases

Colorado air force bases

Connecticut air force bases

Delaware air force bases

Florida air force bases

Georgia air force bases

Guam air force bases

Hawaii air force bases

Idaho air force bases

Illinois air force bases

Indiana air force bases

Iowa

Kansas air force bases

Kentucky air force bases

Louisiana air force bases

Maryland air force bases

Andrews Air Force Base

Massachusetts air force bases

Michigan air force bases

Minnesota air force bases

Mississippi air force bases

Missouri air force bases

Montana air force bases

Nebraska air force bases

Nevada air force bases

New Hampshire air force bases

New Jersey air force bases

New Mexico air force bases

New York air force bases

North Carolina air force bases

North Dakota air force bases

Ohio air force bases

Oklahoma air force bases

Oregon air force bases

Pennsylvania air force bases

Puerto Rico air force bases

Rhode Island air force bases

South Carolina air force bases

South Dakota air force bases

Tennessee air force bases

Texas air force bases

Vermont air force bases

Utah air force bases

Virginia air force bases

Washington air force bases

Washington, D.C., air force bases

West Virginia air force bases

Wisconsin air force bases

Wyoming air force bases

United States Space Force

Alaska space force bases

California space force bases

Colorado space force bases

Florida space force bases

Hawaii space force bases

Massachusetts space force bases

New Hampshire space force bases

North Dakota space force bases

United States Coast Guard

Main articles: List of United States Coast Guard stations and United States Coast Guard Air Stations

Foreign bases and facilities

Australia

Bahamas

Bahrain

Baltic states

The US does not have its own military bases in the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. However, since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, US military personnel have had a continuous rotating presence in the Baltic states, at the request of their governments. This is part of Operation Atlantic Resolve and NATO Enhanced Forward Presence. The bases are controlled by the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian militaries, housing their own personnel and military personnel from other NATO countries. US forces are based at the following sites:[29]

Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania

Belgium

Bulgaria

Further information: Bulgarian–American Joint Military Facilities

Cameroon

Canada

Cuba

Djibouti

Germany

Further information: List of United States Army installations in Germany

Greece

Greenland (Denmark)

Honduras

Israel

Italy

Iraq

Further information: List of United States military installations in Iraq

Japan

Further information: United States Forces Japan § List of current facilities

Jordan

Kenya

Kosovo

Kuwait

Main article: List of United States Army installations in Kuwait

Marshall Islands

Netherlands

Norway

The United States does not have its own military bases or military personnel based in Norway.[40][41] The 2021 Supplementary Defense Cooperation Agreement between the US and Norway lets the US military use twelve Norwegian Armed Forces sites for training, joint NATO exercises, stopovers, and for use in a crisis or war involving NATO.[42] The agreement allows the US military to build and periodically maintain infrastructure at the Rygge, Sola and Evenes Norwegian air bases, and at Ramsund Naval Base.[40] These are not separate US facilities; they are upgrades to Norwegian bases to allow NATO forces to quickly deploy there in the event of a conflict.[41][43]

Poland

Portugal

Qatar

Romania

Saudi Arabia

  • Saudi Maritime Infrastructure Protection Force[50]

Singapore

Somalia

South Korea

Further information: List of United States Army installations in South Korea

Spain

Syria

Main articles: Operation Inherent Resolve § Military bases, and American-led intervention in the Syrian civil war

There were approximately 1,500–2,000 U.S. forces in Syria, spread across 12 different facilities, being used as training bases for Kurdish rebels.[54][55] These soldiers withdrew from Syria to western Iraq in October 2019.[56] Meanwhile, the New York Times reported that the Pentagon was planning to "leave 150 Special Operations forces at a base called al-Tanf", where the United States is training Free Syrian Army rebels.[57] In addition, 200 U.S. soldiers would remain in eastern Syria near the oil fields, to prevent the Islamic State, Syrian government and Russian forces from advancing in the region.[58]

According to the Head of the Ba'athist Syria delegation to Astana talks the U.S. presence in Syria was "illegal" and "without the consent of (the) government".[59] After the fall of the Assad regime, the United States began withdrawing its troops from Syria and transferring its military bases to the Syrian transitional government.

Turkey

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom

British overseas territories

See also

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