Fort George G. Meade is a

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installation located in

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, that includes the

Defense Information School The Defense Information School (DINFOS) is a United States Department of Defense (DoD) school located at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. DINFOS fulfills the Department of Defense's need for an internal corps of professional journalists, broadcast ...

, the

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, the United States Army Field Band, and the headquarters of

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, the

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, the Defense Courier Service,

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headquarters, and the

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's Cryptologic Warfare Group Six. It is named for

George G. Meade George Gordon Meade (December 31, 1815 – November 6, 1872) was a United States Army officer and civil engineer best known for decisively defeating Confederate General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War. H ...

, a Union general from the U.S.

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, who served as commander of the

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. The fort's smaller

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includes support facilities such as schools, housing, and the offices of the Military Intelligence Civilian Excepted Career Program (MICECP).

History

Initially called Camp Annapolis Junction, the post was opened as "Camp Admiral" in 1917 on acquired for a training camp. The post was called Camp Meade Cantonment by 1918, Camp Franklin Signal Corps school was located there and in 1919, the

Camp Benning Fort Benning is a United States Army post near Columbus, Georgia, adjacent to the Alabama–Georgia border. Fort Benning supports more than 120,000 active-duty military, family members, reserve component soldiers, retirees and civilian employees ...

tank school—formed from the World War I

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and Tobyhanna schools—was transferred to the fort before the

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was disbanded. Renamed to

Fort Leonard Wood Fort Leonard Wood is a U.S. Army training installation located in the Missouri Ozarks. The main gate is located on the southern boundary of The City of St. Robert. The post was created in December 1940 and named in honor of General Leonard W ...

(February 1928 – March 5, 1929), the fort's Experimental Motorized Forces in the summer and fall of 1928 tested vehicles and tactics in expedition convoys (Camp Meade observers had joined the in-progress 1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy). In 1929, the fort's 1st Tank Regiment encamped on the Gettysburg Battlefield. During

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, Fort Meade was used as a

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post and prisoner of war camp, in addition to a holding center for approximately 384

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, and

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immigrant residents of the U.S. arrested as potential fifth columnists. The Second U.S. Army Headquarters transferred to the post on June 15, 1947; and in 1957, the post became headquarters of the

Cold War air defense

From the 1950s until the 1970s, the

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had various

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equipment and control systems for air defense (e.g., the 1st Martin AN/FSG-I Antiaircraft Defense System). Fort Meade also had the first

Nike Ajax The United States Army's Nike Ajax was the world's first operational guided surface-to-air missile (SAM), entering service in 1954. Nike Ajax was designed to attack conventional bomber aircraft flying at high subsonic speeds and altitudes abov ...

surface-to-air missiles in December 1953 (operational May 1954) and an accidental firing occurred in 1955 with Battery C, 36th AAA Missile Battalion. In 1962, the Army's Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 13th Air Defense Artillery Group, transferred from Meade to

Homestead AFB Homestead Air Reserve Base (Homestead ARB), previously known as Homestead Air Force Base (Homestead AFB) is located in Miami–Dade County, Florida to the northeast of the city of Homestead. It is home to the 482nd Fighter Wing (482 FW) of th ...

for initial deployment of MIM-23 Hawk missiles, and during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the 6th Battalion (HAWK), 65th Artillery at Fort Meade (a United States Strike Command unit) was deployed to the Miami/Key West area (the 8th Battalion (Hawk) was at the fort in late 1964). Fort Meade bomb disposal experts were dispatched to secure nuclear bombs in the

1964 Savage Mountain B-52 crash The 1964 Savage Mountain B-52 crash was a U.S. military nuclear accident in which a Cold War bomber's vertical stabilizer broke off in winter storm turbulence. The two nuclear bombs being ferried were found "relatively intact in the middle of ...

Expansion

In 1977, a merger organized the fort's U.S. Army Intelligence Agency as part of the

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. On 1 October 1991, a wing of the Air Force Intelligence Command transferred to Fort Meade, and the organization was replaced by the 70th Operations Group on May 1, 2005. In the early 1990s, was transferred from the post to the Patuxent Research Refuge. A planned closure of the post in the 1990s was not implemented, and the Defense Information School moved to the fort in 1995. The 311th Signal Command headquarters was at Fort Meade from 1996 – September 2006. The 70th Intelligence Wing headquarters was established at Fort Meade on July 17, 2000, and the

Base Realignment and Closure, 2005 The 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission preliminary list was released by the United States Department of Defense on May 13, 2005. It was the fifth Base Realignment and Closure ("BRAC") proposal generated since the process was created in ...

, designated Fort Meade to gain 5,700 positions. Fort Meade currently has more than 54,000 employees (service members and civilians), and is the largest employer in the state of Maryland and second largest installation by employee population in the Army.

Hazardous waste

After an August 27, 2007,

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order to assess the contamination at 14 hazardous waste sites on Fort Meade (e.g., ordnance disposal area, 1940s waste dump, closed sanitary landfill),Fort George G. Meade: Current Site Information
Environmental Protection Agency, retrieved January 24, 2008 a September 2007 environmental impact report identified adding two golf courses would be a "significant threat to the biological and territorial integrity of the Patuxent Research Refuge". The US Army responded it is taking steps to limit the environmental damage.Steve Vogel

''Washington Post'', September 22, 2007

Defense Information Systems Agency

After

was established at the post in 2009; on April 15, 2011, the

ribbon-cutting for the move from

Arlington, Virginia Arlington County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The county is situated in Northern Virginia on the southwestern bank of the Potomac River directly across from the District of Columbia, of which it was once a part. The county ...

, was at the agency's Fort Meade complex of .

Defense Information School

The consolidation of the

and the Defense Visual Information School in fiscal 1996 and further consolidation with the Defense Photography School in fiscal 1998 created a single focal point in the

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for these specialties fields. Advancements in information technology and recent base realignment and closure initiatives have contributed to the evolution of the school. The result is a single school proud of its historical roots and dedicated to serving the diverse requirements for public affairs, broadcasting and visual information.

Security incidents

Alleged gunman Hong Young was arrested in connection with shootings at five public places in Maryland, including an NSA building, theaters and occupied vehicles in late February 2015. No motive has been established but his estranged wife attributed his behavior to mental issues, and he told police he heard voices telling him to shoot at a random driver. On March 30, 2015, National Security Agency police officers shot and killed a person who attempted to drive an SUV through a restricted entrance to the NSA campus in Fort Meade, Maryland. A passenger in the SUV was injured, as was an officer, and both were treated at a hospital. President Obama was briefed but the FBI determined "we do not believe it is related to terrorism." On February 14, 2018, National Security Agency police officers shot and wounded an individual who rammed an SUV into a barricade near an entry gate outside of the facility. In the immediate aftermath of the event, the NSA announced that there was "no ongoing security or safety threat."

Geography

Fort Meade is bordered by the

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on the west and is about east of Interstate 95. It is located between

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and

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. It is located in proximity to Odenton, Columbia, Jessup,

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Based units

Notable military and government units based at Fort George G. Meade.

United States Army

United States Army Civil Affairs & Psychological Operations Command (Airborne) * 352nd Civil Affairs Command

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* North Atlantic Division ** Baltimore District *** Bay Area Office

United States Army Criminal Investigation Command The United States Army Criminal Investigation Division (USACID), previously known as the United States Army Criminal Investigation Command (USACIDC) is the primary federal law enforcement agency of the United States Department of the Army. Its ...

* 68th Military Police Detachment (CID)

United States Army Forces Command United States Army Forces Command (FORSCOM) is the largest United States Army command. It provides expeditionary, regionally engaged, campaign-capable land forces to combatant commanders. Headquartered at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, FORSCOM con ...

* First Army Division East ** 72nd Field Artillery Brigade *** 3rd Training Support Battalion United States Army Intelligence & Security Command *

704th Military Intelligence Brigade The 704th Military Intelligence Brigade, a subordinate unit of the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, conducts synchronized full-spectrum signals intelligence, computer network, and information assurance operations directly and through ...

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** 741st Military Intelligence Battalion ** 742nd Military Intelligence Battalion (Network Warfare) * 780th Military Intelligence Brigade **

** 781st Military Intelligence Battalion * 902nd Military Intelligence Group ** Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment ** 308th Military Intelligence Battalion

United States Army Recruiting Command The United States Army Recruiting Command (USAREC) is responsible for manning both the United States Army and the Army Reserve. Recruiting operations are conducted throughout the United States, U.S. territories, and at U.S. military facilities in ...

* 1st Recruiting Brigade * Medical Recruiting Brigade ** 1st Medical Recruiting Battalion

United States Army Reserve The United States Army Reserve (USAR) is a reserve force of the United States Army. Together, the Army Reserve and the Army National Guard constitute the Army element of the reserve components of the United States Armed Forces. Since July 2020 ...

* 48th Combat Support Hospital *

200th Military Police Command The 200th Military Police Command is the senior Law enforcement agency, law enforcement unit within the United States Army Reserve, U.S. Army Reserve. The subordinate elements of the 200th MP Command are primarily military police units, but the com ...

United States Army Training and Doctrine Command The United States Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) is a major command of the United States Army headquartered at Fort Eustis, Virginia. It is charged with overseeing training of Army forces and the development of operational doctrine. ...

Asymmetric Warfare Group The Asymmetric Warfare Group was a United States Army unit created during the War on Terrorism to mitigate various threats with regard to asymmetric warfare. The unit was headquartered at Fort Meade, Maryland and had a training facility at Fort ...

Maryland Army National Guard The Maryland Army National Guard (MD ARNG) is the United States Army component of the U.S. state of Maryland. It is headquartered at the old Fifth Regiment Armory at the intersection of North Howard Street, 29th Division Street, near Martin Lut ...

* 32nd Civil Support Team Other * 241st Military Police Detachment * 55th Signal Company (Combat Camera) * Army Audit Agency * Army Public Affairs Center * Forensic Toxicology Drug Testing Laboratory * US Army Field Band

United States Marines

Marine Corps Cyberspace Command * Headquarters Marine Corps Cyberspace Command

Marine Corps Intelligence Marine Corps Intelligence is an element of the United States Intelligence Community. The Director of Intelligence supervises the Intelligence Department of HQMC and is responsible for policy, plans, programming, budgets, and staff supervision o ...

Marine Cryptologic Support Battalion The Marine Cryptologic Support Battalion (MCSB) is a Marine Corps Intelligence battalion of the United States Marine Corps. The battalion headquarters are located in Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. Mission The battalion's stated purpose is "t ...

** Headquarters Marine Cryptologic Support Battalion ** Company B ** Company L

United States Air Force

Air Combat Command *

Sixteenth Air Force The Sixteenth Air Force (Air Forces Cyber) (16 AF) is a United States Air Force (USAF) organization responsible for information warfare, which encompasses intelligence gathering and analysis, surveillance, reconnaissance, cyber warfare and ele ...

70th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing The 70th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing (70th ISR Wing) is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the 16th Air Force. It is stationed at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. Known as "America's Cryptologic Wing", is the only ...

*** Headquarters 70th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing *** 70th Operations Support Squadron *** 659th Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Group ****

7th Intelligence Squadron The United States Air Force's 7th Intelligence Squadron is an intelligence unit located at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. The squadron, as the 7th Radio Squadron, Mobile, provided intelligence for American forces in New Guinea and the Philippi ...

**** 41st Intelligence Squadron *** 691st Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Group **** 22nd Intelligence Squadron **** 29th Intelligence Squadron **** 34th Intelligence Squadron ***

707th Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Group The 707th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group (707 ISRG) is a unit of the United States Air Force 70th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing located at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. The group is the largest group ...

****

32nd Intelligence Squadron The 32d Intelligence Squadron is a unit of the United States Air Force 707th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group located at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. Overview The 32d Intelligence Squadron is a specialized organization that ...

**** 94th Intelligence Squadron **** 707th Communications Squadron **** 707th Force Support Squadron Air Force Reserve Command *

Tenth Air Force The Tenth Air Force (10 AF) is a unit of the U.S. Air Force, specifically a numbered air force of the Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC). 10 AF is headquartered at Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base/Carswell Field (formerly Carswel ...

** 655th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing *** 655th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group **** 16th Intelligence Squadron **** 512th Intelligence Squadron

United States Navy

United States Fleet Cyber Command (

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) * Cryptologic Warfare Group Six

Department of Defense

Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) is a federasecurityand defense agency of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) that reports to the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.DCSA is the largest counterintellige ...

* Consolidated Adjudications Facility

* Headquarters Defense Information Systems Agency

* Headquarters Defense Media Activity *

* Headquarters United States Cyber Command

United States Transportation Command The United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) is one of eleven unified combatant commands of the United States Department of Defense. The command is located at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, and was established in 1987. The USTRANSCO ...

* Defense Courier Service ** Defense Courier Station, Baltimore

United States Department of the Navy

Naval Criminal Investigative Service The United States Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) is the primary law enforcement agency of the U.S. Department of the Navy. Its primary function is to investigate criminal activities involving the Navy and Marine Corps, though its ...

Department of the Navy Central Adjudication Facility The Department of the Navy Central Adjudication Facility (DoN CAF), a Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) organization, was responsible for determining who within the Department of the Navy is eligible to hold a security clearance A ...

United States Environmental Protection Agency

* Environmental Science Center

Library of Congress

* Book Storage Facility

National Security Agency

* Headquarters National Security Agency

Library of Congress

Fort Meade is used as a storage facility for the United States

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. In 1994, a site located in the U.S. Army Base at Fort Meade, MD was transferred to the U.S. Congress to provide additional storage capacity for the Library of Congress and other legislative bodies. The current master plan includes the land to construct up to 13 Phased Storage Modules for collections, if this number is needed. In subsequent years, Congress provided construction funds in the Architect of the Capitol budget for Module 1, completed in 2002, for Module 2, completed in 2005 and Modules 3 and 4 and four cold storage rooms, completed in 2009. A full-scale three-year transfer program of the special format collections to Modules 3 and 4 and the four cold storage rooms began in Spring 2010 and was completed in September 2012. Module 5 has been fully funded with occupancy scheduled for September 2017. The state-of-the art storage modules are being built to store, preserve and protect the library's collections. Collections include books and bound periodicals as well as special format collections, such as maps, manuscripts, prints, photographs, sheet music, and microfilm masters. If needed and constructed, the 13 collections storage modules will provide a total of 180,600 gross sq ft of archival storage space for the library's collections.

Museums

The Fort George G. Meade Museum exhibited the post's historical artifacts, including uniforms, insignia, and equipment. The museum also had a small collection of vehicles, including a

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, a MK VIII Liberty Tank, an M3A1 Stuart, an M4A3E8 Sherman, an

M41 Walker Bulldog The M41 Walker Bulldog, officially 76-mm Gun Tank, M41, was an American light tank developed for armed reconnaissance purposes. It was produced by Cadillac between 1951 and 1954 and marketed successfully to the United States Army as a replaceme ...

, an

M47 Patton The M47 Patton was an American main battle tank, a development of the M46 Patton mounting an updated turret, and was in turn further developed as the M48 Patton. It was the second American tank to be named after General George S. Patton, comm ...

, armored personnel carriers such as an M113,

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, M84, a

missile, and a

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helicopter. The Fort George G. Meade Community Council noted in July 2018 that the museum would close, with artifacts relocated to the

National Museum of the United States Army The National Museum of the United States Army is the official museum for the history of the United States Army and is just outside Washington, D.C. It opened on November 11, 2020. The objectives of the museum are to honor America's soldiers, pre ...

under construction in

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Transportation

Since 2005, the NSA operates a shuttle service from the

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to its Visitor Control Center at Fort Meade. In 2009, the

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established a similar shuttle service from the Odenton station to the Army section of Fort Meade; the NSA operates this service, allowing garrison employees, persons with Fort Meade visitor passes, and

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IDs to board.

Housing concerns

In February 2019, Secretary of the Army

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, Chief of Staff

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, and Sgt. Maj. of the Army Daniel A. Dailey met with the commander of

IMCOM The United States Army Installation Management Command (IMCOM) is a support formation of the United States Army responsible for the day-to-day management of Army installations around the globe. Army garrisons are communities that provide many o ...

, the Fort Meade garrison commander, and Army families over safety concerns with housing units on the base in which residents were exposed to lead and asbestos. After speaking with the CEO for the company which manages the house maintenance of the installation, the senior leaders of the Army will determine necessary actions. "We are deeply troubled by the recent reports highlighting the deficient conditions in some of our family housing. It is unacceptable for our families who sacrifice so much to have to endure these hardships in their own homes."—Secretary of the Army, Dr. Mark T. Esper and Chief of Staff of the Army, Gen. Mark A. Milley

Gallery

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References

External links

*
Fort Meade Alliance
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History

Cold War air defense

Expansion

Hazardous waste

Defense Information Systems Agency

Defense Information School

Security incidents

Geography

Based units

United States Army

United States Marines

United States Air Force

United States Navy

Department of Defense

United States Department of the Navy

United States Environmental Protection Agency

Library of Congress

National Security Agency

Library of Congress

Museums

Transportation

Housing concerns

Gallery

See also

References

External links