Located in West Central Louisiana, Fort Polk is home to the Joint Readiness Training Center. It is one of three of the Army’s Combat Training Centers, and it trains more than 11 Army and National Guard Brigade Combat Teams every year. It is the fifth largest military installation by acreage in the nation.

Located in Maryland, midway between the cities of Baltimore, Annapolis, and Washington, D.C., Fort George G. Meade lies four miles east of Interstate 95 and one-half mile east of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. Fort Meade is situated within the communities of Odenton, Laurel, Severn, Jessup, and Columbia. BWI Airport is a convenient 20 minutes away from Fort Meade.

Fort Dix, as it is commonly known, is actually Join Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. As an Army base, Fort Dix was consolidated with neighboring Navy and Air Force facilities in 2009 to comprise one single secure facility. It is a training base under the jurisdiction of Army Installation Management Command and is located approximately 18 miles south of Trenton, New Jersey. It is the only tri-service base in the United States Department of Defense and includes units from all five branches of the Armed Forces.

Red River Army Depot is located in the area commonly known as the “Four States Area” and is situated in Northeast Texas. Its primary mission is the maintenance of tactical wheeled vehicles as well as the Army’s light tracked combat vehicle fleet.

Fort Jackson is an Army installation, from which TRADOC operates for Basic Combat Training, located within the city limits of Columbia, South Carolina. It was named for United States Army General and seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, who was born on the border between North and South Carolina. The installation trains half of all the Army’s Basic Combat Training soldiers.