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This article is about the US Army post. For the fortified vault building, see United States Bullion Depository. For other uses, see Fort Knox (disambiguation).
Fort Knox is a United States Army installation in Kentucky, south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown. It is adjacent to the United States Bullion Depository (also known as Fort Knox), which is used to house a large portion of the United States’ official gold reserves, and with which it is often conflated.
Fort Knox
Kentucky
Location of Fort Knox in Kentucky
Coordinates
37.92°N 85.96°W
Type
Military base
Site information
Controlled by
1861–1865: Contested
1865–present: United States
Website
home.army.mil/knox/
Site history
Built
1918
In use
1861–1865: Civil War
1865–1903: Settlement
1903–1918: Training grounds
1918–1925: Camp Knox
1925–1928: National Forest
1928–1931: Camp Knox
1932–present: Fort Knox
Garrison information
Current
commander
Col. Lance O’Bryan[1]
Occupants
Brig. Gen. Maurice O. Barnett[2]
Commanding General, Fort Knox
The 109,000-acre (170 sq mi; 440 km2)[3] base covers parts of Bullitt, Hardin and Meade counties. It currently holds the Army Human Resources Center of Excellence, including the Army Human Resources Command. It is named in honor of Henry Knox, Chief of Artillery in the American Revolutionary War and the first United States Secretary of War.
For 60 years, Fort Knox was the home of the U.S. Army Armor Center and School, and was used by both the Army and the Marine Corps to train crews on the American tanks of the day; the last was the M1 Abrams main battle tank. The history of the U.S. Army’s Cavalry and Armored forces, and of General George S. Patton’s career, is shown at the General George Patton Museum[4] on the grounds of Fort Knox.
In 2011, the U.S. Army Armor School moved to Fort Moore, Georgia, where the Infantry School is also based.[5] In 2014, the U.S. Army Cadet Command relocated to Fort Knox and all summer training for ROTC cadets now takes place there.[6]
On 16 October 2020, V Corps was reactivated at Fort Knox, just over seven years after the colors were last cased in Wiesbaden, Germany, in July 2013.[7]
Bullion depository
Census-designated place
Patton Museum
History
Human Resources Command
Education
Units and tenants
Geography
Demographics
See also
References
External links
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