Fort Brag Research Paper

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Fort Bragg is a military base, or a military installation to be more precise ,why military installation, because of its vast area and the complexity of its compound. It is located near Fayetville in North Carolina. It is the largest military base in terms of population with more than 50 000 active officers and soldiers. Finding out the exact number of total active military personnel was a hard task to do bcuz it was hard to find a reliable source. In the end i found a number on the official Fort bragg website, and according to that, fort bragg is a home to approximately 53 700 active military personnel. Besides active personnel there , if we include families of those men and retired soldiers and officers we can say that, this military installation supports a population of roughly 260 000.
This information is quite staggering but it is not the only one. Fort Bragg is the fourth largest military base in the world in terms of area it covers. The whole military compound including all the buildings, facilities, offices and camps covers an area of approximately 650 square kilometers. When i read this information, it was kind of hard to comprehend how big it is, and i guess it is hard for you too to realize this are so i will make a comparison to make it more comprehensible. For example, this military …show more content…
It was founded back in 1918 and it was called camp bragg. The US government spent around 6 million us dollars to buy land and to finance construction of base. That was quite a money back in 1918. Construction of the camp was completed in 1919 and was named after Confederate States Army forces commander in the Civil War, General Braxton Bragg. Camp bragg was a place where artillery units conducted their training and shooting. It gained a status of full scale permanent military base in 1922 and achieved peak in terms of active soldiers in the 40s when 67 000 soldiers where stationed in this base. Later, the base became home for airborne
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