Fort Huachuca

Fort Huachuca
Fort Huachuca
Cochise County, Arizona; Near Sierra Vista, Arizona in United States
	Insignia of units stationed at Fort Huachuca; Motto: "From sabres to satellites"
	Interactive map outlining Fort Huachuca
	Fort Huachuca Location in Arizona Fort Huachuca Location in the United States
Coordinates	31°33′19″N 110°20′59″W
Type	Army Post
Site information
Owner	United States
Controlled by	United States Army
Open to; the public	Yes
Condition	Active
Website	Official Website
Site history
Built	3 March 1877
In use	143 years
Battles/wars	Apache Wars 1849–1924; Pancho Villa Expedition 1916–1917 ; World War II; Korean War
Garrison information
Current; commander	Major General Richard T. Appelhans
Past; commanders	List of Past Commanders CPT Samuel Whitside; CPT Henry Lawton; LTC Charles Young; COL Cornelius Smith; BG Harry H. Hiestand; BG Albert N. Stubblebine III; MG John M. Custer III; MG Robert P. Ashley; MG Scott D. Berrier; MG Robert Walters; MG Laura A. Potter; MG Anthony R. Hale;
Garrison	USAG Fort Huachuca
Occupants	U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence (USAICoE); Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM); 111th Military Intelligence Brigade; 40th Expeditionary Signal Battalion; 2nd Battalion, 13th Aviation Regiment, 1st Aviation Brigade; Intelligence Electronic Warfare Test Directorate (IEWTD); Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC); Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS); Major General Maria Barret – CG, NETCOM; Command Sergeant Major Warren Robinson – USAICoE CSM; Command Sergeant Major Richard Knott – NETCOM CSM
Designations	National Register of Historic Places
	Fort Huachuca
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. National Historic Landmark District
	Historic Commanding Officer's quarters
Nearest city	Sierra Vista, Arizona
Area	76,000 acres (310 km2)
Built	1877
Architect	US Army
NRHP reference No.	74000443
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	20 November 1974
Designated NHLD	11 May 1976

Fort Huachuca is a United States Army installation, established on 3 March 1877 as Camp Huachuca. The garrison is now under the command of the United States Army Installation Management Command. It is in Cochise County in southeast Arizona, approximately 15 miles (24 km) north of the border with Mexico and at the northern end of the Huachuca Mountains, adjacent to the town of Sierra Vista. From 1913 to 1933, the fort was the base for the "Buffalo Soldiers" of the 10th Cavalry Regiment. During the build-up of World War II, the fort had quarters for more than 25,000 male soldiers and hundreds of WACs. In the 2010 census, Fort Huachuca had a population of about 6,500 active duty soldiers, 7,400 military family members, and 5,000 civilian employees. Fort Huachuca has over 18,000 people on post during weekday work hours.

The major tenant units are the United States Army Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM) and the United States Army Intelligence Center. Libby Army Airfield is on post and shares its runway with Sierra Vista Municipal Airport. It was an alternate but never used landing location for the Space Shuttle. Fort Huachuca is the headquarters of Army Military Auxiliary Radio System. Other units include the Joint Interoperability Test Command, the Information Systems Engineering Command, the Electronic Proving Ground (USAEPG), and the Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Directorate.

The fort has a radar-equipped aerostat (Tethered Aerostat Radar System), one of a series maintained for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) by Harris Corporation. The aerostat is northeast of Garden Canyon and supports the DEA drug interdiction mission by detecting low-flying aircraft attempting to enter the United States from Mexico. Fort Huachuca contains the Western Division of the Advanced Airlift Tactics Training Center which is based at the 139th Airlift Wing, Rosecrans Air National Guard Base in Saint Joseph, Missouri.

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