Whether this is your first time coming to Fort Hood, or you're coming back for another tour, welcome home to the Great Place. We call this the Great Place not based upon size (although it is huge), nor the immensity of the missions we support in defense of the nation. No, Fort Hood is the Great Place because of the servicemen and women, Department of Army civilians, contract employees and all their families, who live and work at ...

Welcome to the United States Coast Guard Academy. One of the smallest of America's five federal service academies, the Coast Guard Academy is situated on 103 acres of rolling hills on the west bank of the Thames River in historic New London, Conn. The Coast Guard Academy offers a prestigious higher education experience which emphasizes leadership, physical fitness and professional development in order to graduate the very best Coast Guard officers. Graduates go directly to positions of ...

SAN DIEGO San Diego, named after Saint Didacus, is the second-largest city in California and the eighth largest city in the United States. Though San Diego's economy is multifaceted—biotechnology, defense manufacturing, agriculture, software development and microbreweries are some of the city's biggest money-makers—tourism is a cornerstone that can't be ignored. Tourism drastically affects the city's culture, and San Diego houses many local attractions, such as SeaWorld San Diego, Belmont amusement park, San ...