Aberdeen is the Army’s oldest active proving ground — established Oct.20, 1917, on the shores of Chesapeake Bay in Maryland’s Harford County six months after the U.S. entered World War I out of a need for a larger munitions and equipment-testing facility in a remote area yet close to industrial and shipping centers. Officials fired the first weapon three months later, and the war ended Nov.11, 1918. Since then the facility has proof-tested field artillery weapons, ammunition, trench mortars, air ...

Welcome to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, the premier joint base in the Department of Defense and home to America's Arctic Warriors! In October 2010, the Air Force's Elmendorf Air Force Base and the Army's Fort Richardson combined to become one installation in accordance with Defense Department's 2005 Base Closure and Realignment Commission recommendations. This merger of two great installations and two powerful combat missions simply formalized an already close working relationship the Air Force an Army have shared ...