U.S. Military Forces Abroad
Klare, Mike
As of September 1, 1969, the United States had some 1.2 million servicemen stationed abroad (out of a total armed strength of 3.5 million men), in more than 30 countries and overseas possessions,...
...Camp McKenzie...
...Moron San Pablo air base...
...7. To be turned over to Trinidad by 1977...
...Chaguaramas VIRGIN ISLANDS . Submarine Base...
...forces in Laos...
...For a discussion of U.S...
...Sigonella, Catanic Sicily Aviano Air Force Base...
...Cristobal Naval Communications Station...
...General William C. Westmoreland Chief of Naval Operations...
...Livorno SETAF Headquarters...
...General Creighton Abrams, USA Deputy Commander...
...General George R. Mather, USA Chief of Staff...
...Rota Submarine base...
...Camp Tyler...
...Harrison . Lansing . Camp Ames...
...Bases In The Third World Asia & The Pacific U.S...
...David Packard Director of Defense R&E...
...overseas installations...
...Balboa CUBA Naval Air Station...
...Thaddeus R. Beal Secretary of the Navy...
...Bahrein Island .~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Latin America & The Caribbean (Total U.S...
...Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean: 25,000 men AZORES (Portuguese) Lajes Field air base...
...Camp Thunderbolt...
...Balboa Fort Davis...
...LGen Glen W. Martin Commander MACV...
...2 (Oct., 1968), and of U.S...
...Lajes Ir 1 CRETE Iraklion Air Station...
...Security Group Activities...
...Balboa Fort Sherman...
...Song Tan Suwon Air Base . Taegu Air Base...
...Buyuk Cigli Incirlick Air Base...
...LGen Thomas K. McGehee Commander in Chief Alaskan Command...
...Sandys Parish Kindley Air Force Base...
...Udorn U Tapao Air Base (SAC base...
...Ankara Cigli Air Base...
...Gimbols . Gun Training Area...
...Olongapo Clark Air Base...
...Military Assistance Command...
...RAdm Charles D. Nace Commander Air Force SouthComrn...
...Eugene M. Becker Research and Development...
...Camp Humphreys...
...Southern Command...
...Forces, Korea) LAOS Joint Operations Center (HQ for U.S...
...Mike Klare The New York Tlm FA...
...George21 CANAL ZONE Army bases: Quarry Heights (HQ, U.S...
...Admiral Waldemar F. Wendt CiC Air Force Europe...
...MGen Kelley B. Lemmon, jr Commander Alaskan Sea Frontier...
...Coco Solo Naval Station...
...Culebra Is...
...Military Command Chart COMMANDER IN CHIEF-PRESIDENT RICHARD M. NIXON Armed Forces Aide to the President-BGen James D. Hughes, USAF Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird Deputy Secretary of Defense...
...Ikago Ammunition Depot...
...G. Warren Nutter Public Affairs...
...Military Operations / Latin America," NACLA Newsletter, vol...
...Cartel Naval Fuel Depot...
...Bullseye 2...
...Tsurumi POL Depot...
...Ishikawa Koza Ghantan Son Ginowan Son Naha Naha Naha Henoro Naha Chibana Naha Futema Camp Butler Naha Kadena Air Base (SAC base...
...Camp Coiner...
...Roger T. Kelley Comptroller...
...Camp Henry...
...Azuma Storage Area...
...supply activities in support of the Royal Laotian Army...
...Naval Ordnance Facility...
...Thomas Marine Corps Air Facility...
...Admiral John S. McCain, jr Chief of Staff...
...Camp Stanley...
...Bullseye 1...
...Tama Ammunition Depot...
...Rota22 11 I Naval Fuel Depot...
...presently maintains some 2,270 military installations abroad (not including bases in South Vietnam and Laos, which number in the hundreds), of which 340 are designated "major" bases...
...Vientiane CIA / Air America base 2...
...General John D. Ryan Commandant of the Marine Corps...
...Camp Long...
...Taipei THAILAND (42,000 men) Don Muang Airport...
...John W. Warner Secretary of the Air Force...
...Daniel Z. Henkin Systems Analysis...
...Marine Corps Air Facility...
...As part of a continuing NACLA study of U.S...
...TAIWAN (10,000 men) Chia Yi Air Base...
...overseas bases, programs and operations, we have compiled the following list of U.S...
...Bangkok Nakhon Phanom Airport 4...
...LGen James V. Edmundson, USAF Commander in Chief SAC...
...San Juan San Juan San Juan Roosevelt Roads San Juan Vieques Is...
...Naha POL Facilities...
...Carl S. Wallace Assistant Secretaries of the Army Installations and Logistics...
...Misawa Air Base...
...THIS LIST IS NOT INCLUSIVE: missing are many bases in South Vietnam, CIA/Special Forces bases in Thailand and Laos, and secret bases elsewhere...
...Gournes ETHIOPIA (1,600 men) Kagnew Army communications station...
...Panama Naval Station...
...Camp Kaiser...
...We invite our readers to send any documentation they may have on additional bases, or any other corrections or comments they may have...
...military activity or mission...
...Karamursel FOOTNOTES: 1. This is a secret base...
...Itazuki Air Base...
...Thomas Africa & The Mediterranean U.S...
...Robert L. Johnson Manpower and Reserve Affairs...
...Korat Takhli Air Base...
...Major" installations are defined by the Pentagon as bases "which are large in number of acres occupied or personnel accommodated, or which represent a high acquisition cost to the United States Government, or which are used in support of a principal U.S...
...General Leonard F. Chapman, jr Assistant Secretaries of Defense Manpower and Reserve Affairs...
...John H. Chafee Under Secretary of the Navy...
...Naval firing range...
...Naval facility...
...Carl Walske Telecommunications...
...Balboa Howard Air Force Base...
...Frank P. Sanders Financial Management...
...Asmara GREECE Naval Communications Station...
...Angeles, Luzon RYUKYUS (OKINAWA) (45,000 men) Army bases: STARCOM receiver site...
...Torre Zaragoza Air Base...
...Gulick...
...Eniwetok Is...
...Agana, Guam Naval Communications Station...
...Yamada Ammunition Storage Annex Camp Drake...
...Agana, Guam Naval Air Station...
...Phitanulok PERSIAN GULF Naval station (HQ, U.S...
...Naval Air Station...
...Guam Naval Magazine...
...Rodman Albrook Air Force Base...
...Long Cheng CIA / Air America base 2...
...RAdm Eugene G. Fairfax Commander Alaskan Air Command...
...General Ralph E. Haines, jr CinC Pacific Fleet...
...BGen John C. Bennett, USA Commander Army Alaska...
...Navy Middle East Command...
...General William B. Rosson, USA ABBREVIATIONS: ADC - Air Defense Command CinC - Commander-in-Chief CONAD - Contiental Air Defense Command MACV - Military Assiatance Command, Vietnam POL - Petroleum, Oil storage facility R & E - Research and Engineering SAC - Strategic Air Command SETAF - Southern European Task Force STARCOM - Strategic Army Communications Command...
...Incirlik Karamursel Air Force base...
...Gardiner L. Tucker Health and Environment...
...Stonestown . Uncurk . Walmi-Do . Willow Run . Bellvue . Camp Irwin...
...Ota Koizumi Training Field...
...Korajalein Is...
...Naval Air Station...
...Aguadilla TRINIDAD Naval Station 7...
...Richard G. Capen, jr Atomic Energy...
...General Joseph R. Holzapple Commander in Chief Pacific...
...Camp Chitose...
...Cavite City Naval Supply Depot...
...Taipei Air Station...
...Tomioka Storage Area...
...Naval Air Facility...
...Camp Page...
...Major bases include large air bases, ship yards and fleet facilities, principal headquarters and command complexes, large communications facilities and troop training and housing compounds...
...Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, jr Chief of Staff of the Air Force...
...John L. McLucas Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman...
...James P. Goode (acting) Unified and Specified Commands Commander in Chief Europe...
...Camp Richmond...
...See the N.Y...
...Camp Sukiran...
...civilians, 350,000 dependents and 255,000 foreign nationals attached to U.S...
...Kanchanaburi CIA / Special Forces base...
...Verona Naval Air Facility...
...Balboa Fort Amador...
...James D. Hittle Assistant Secretaries of the Air Force Installations and Logistics...
...Kunsan Air Base...
...MGen Joseph A. Cunningham Commander in Chief Southern Command...
...Kashiwa Communications Site...
...Exmouth, North West Cape Pine Gap space communications basel...
...Camp Clinch...
...Subic Point Naval Air Station...
...Vincenza Camp Darby...
...r ~ ~ ~ IIII U.S...
...Barry J. Shillito International Security Affairs...
...5. The center for U.S...
...MGen John B. Henry, r, USAF Commander Army Forces SouthComr...
...Owada Communications Site...
...San Miguel Naval Station...
...Guantanamo Bay PUERTO RICO Army bases: Fort Brooke...
...Reno . Single...
...strength: 25,000 men) BAHAMA ISLANDS Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center 6...
...NAHA SOUTH VIETNAM (approx...
...Torrejon Air Base...
...Zarag gena crol jon De Ardoz za TURKEY (10,000 men) Ankara Air Station...
...Louis A. de Rosa The Special Assistant...
...Tori Station...
...Kwangju Osan Air Base...
...Koza Naha Air Base...
...In addition to uniformed personnel, there are some 26,000 U.S...
...Kachin Hanto, Area A...
...Louis M. Rousselot General Counsel...
...General James H. Polk CinC Navy Europe...
...Udorn CIA / Air America base 5...
...Naval Communications Station...
...Admiral Ephraim P. Holmes Commander in Chief Strike Command...
...Special Forces...
...LGen Robert G. Rueg, USAF Chief of Staff...
...Camp Essayons...
...Asaka Kashiwa-Shi Owada-Machi Chitose-Shi Kamiseya Sakata Eta Jima Yokosuka City Sagamihara Hiro-Machi Zushi City Koshiba-Machi Yokosuka City Sagamihara Tokyo Yokohama Yokohama Tokorozawa Kokora-Shi Tokyo Ota-Shi Yokosuka Iwakuni Oppama Sasebo Sasebo Yokosuka Tokyo Iwakuni-Shi Misawa Tachikawa-Shi Yokota Air Base...
...Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific) AUSTRALIA Naval Communications Station...
...Air Force bases: Fuchu Air Station...
...Roveredo In Piano San Vito dei Normanni Air Station MOROCCO (2,000 men) Naval Communications Station...
...Guantanamo Bay Naval Station...
...John S. Foster Secretary of the Army...
...Security Group Activities...
...Kwajalein Atoll MIDWAY ISLAND Naval Station...
...Grant L. Hansen Manpower and Reserve Affairs...
...Camp St...
...Balboa Naval Ship Repair Facility...
...Southampton Parish Naval Station...
...Army Ordnance Facility...
...bases and operations in Latin America, see, "U.S...
...Pacific Fleet: 389,000 men (First Fleet off the West Coast of the U.S...
...Subic Bay Naval Air Station...
...Robert A. Frosch Manpower and Reserve Affairs...
...Ordnance Depot...
...Sam Thong MARIANA ISLANDS Andersen Air Force Base...
...Admiral Ephraim P. Holmes Deputy CinC...
...Naval/Marine test area...
...Cristobal Fort Gulick (HQ, 8th U.S...
...Our list is based on a limited-circulation Defense Department listing of overseas bases, and on numerous magazine and newspaper articles...
...Admiral Thomas H. Moorer Chief of Staff of the Army...
...LGen Charles A. Corcoran, USA CinC Army Pacific...
...general Seth . McKee, USAF Chief of Staff...
...J. Fred Buzhardt Assistants to the Secretary Legislative Affairs...
...Charles A. Bowsher Research and Development...
...Sagamihara General Depot...
...E1 Fe Moron Air Base...
...Saigon Other major bases at: Bien Hoa, Binh Thuy, Cam Ranh Bay, Da Nang, Nha Trang (Special Forces HQ), Phan Rang, Phu Cat, Pleiku, Tuy Hoa...
...MGen Kenneth H. Bayer, USA Commander Army ADC...
...MGen Chester L. Johnson Commander Navy Forces SouthComn...
...Times, Dec...
...Hiro Ammunition Depot...
...Army Depot...
...Rota Naval Fuel Annex...
...Naval Air Facility...
...4. Used for bombing Pathet Lao positions in Laos...
...Marine Corps Detachment...
...Midway PHILIPPINE ISLANDS (25,000 men) Naval Communications Station...
...U Tapao Naval logistics facility...
...Camp Edinburg...
...Sangley Point Naval Air Station...
...J. Ronald Fox Financial Management...
...Chieng Mai CIA / Special Forces base...
...minor" installations include navigational aids, small communications facilities, and small administrative buildings supporting incidental activities...
...Robert F. Froehlke Installations and Logistics...
...Port 6...
...Ordnance Depot...
...Akizuki Ammunition Depot...
...troop strength in these countries is indicated where known...
...Item . Robie . Camp Custer South...
...Ramey Air Base (SAC base...
...2. These bases are used for supplying the CIA's mercenary force of Khmer irregulars, the Arme Clandestine...
...Fussa-Machi Wakkanai Air Station...
...Military missions and military assistance advisory groups (MAAGs) are also included in this category...
...Stanley R. Resor Under Secretary of the Army...
...LGen George V. Underwood, jr Commander Aerospace Defense Command...
...Andros Island BERMUDA Naval Facility...
...Cristobal U.S...
...General Andrew J. Goodpaster, USA Deputy CinC...
...Robert C. Moot Admnistration...
...Cristobal Fort Knobbe...
...Kitty Hawk...
...to 19.719 U.S...
...VAdm William 1. Martin CinC Atlantic Fleet...
...Naval Fleet Activity...
...Fort Buchannan...
...Pu Tzu Chien Tainan Air Base...
...Tachikawa Air Base...
...Wakkanai Yamato Air Station . KOREA (53,000 men) Army bases: Austin . Camp Alex N. Williams . Camp Casey...
...Camp Fuchinobe...
...Nakhon Phanom Korat Air Base...
...Camp Harvey...
...Nam Phong CIA / Special Forces base...
...Guam Naval Supply Depot...
...General Joseph J. Nazzaro Commander in Chief CONAD...
...General Bruce K. Holloway Vice CinC...
...Bullseye 3...
...U.S...
...Taegu Yongsan Air Base (HQ, U.S...
...Robert C. Seamans, jr Under Secretary of the Air Force...
...Nea Makri Athenai Airport air base...
...MGen Kenneth O. Sanborn Commander in Chief Atlantic...
...General John L Throckmorton, USA Deputy CinC...
...Bayonet Training Area...
...Guam MARSHALL ISLANDS Naval facility...
...it is described by the Pentagon as a space research facility, but other military functions have been suggested in the Australian press...
...Tainan Shu-Lin-Kuo Air Station...
...Sidi Yahya Naval training facility...
...William K. Brehm Assistant Secretaries of the Navy Installations and Logistics...
...400,000 men) Tan Son Nhut Air Base (HQ, U.S...
...General David A. Burchinal, USAF CinC Army Europe...
...Koshiba POL Depot...
...Naval Station...
...Barbara...
...Army School of the Americas (Ft...
...6. Used for testing submarine detection devises and anti-submarine weapons...
...Radar facilities, Pacific Missile Test Range 3...
...Kenitra SPAIN (10,000 men) Naval Station...
...Navy bases: Naval Communications Station...
...Ubon Nam Phong Air Base...
...Site Hanza...
...The U.S...
...Ice . Kamak . Mobile . Paju-Ri Tokcong-Ni Tongdnchon-Ni Changdan Seoul Taegu Tongdnchon-Ni Song Hwa Ri Unchon-Ni Munsan-Ni Chun Chon Bupyong Chong-Song-Ni Kyonsikhyon-Dong Inchon Chun-Dong Dryu-Dong Chang Roku Inchon Chunchon Ri Mojin-Dong Pubwon-Ni Tonggo-Ri Vijong-Bu Paju-Ri Inchon Kyonggi-Do Kori Dae Kanng-Ni Juksong-Ni Inchon-Ni Bupyong Bupyong Changdan Yongho-Ri Unshan-Ni Kwanghu Chingong-Myon Chor-Myon Visong-Bu Yonchon-Myon Paeichange-Myon Choksong-Myon Unhyon-Myon Air Force bases: Kimpo Air Base...
...Sakon Nakhon CIA / Specual Forces base...
...As of September 1, 1969, the United States had some 1.2 million servicemen stationed abroad (out of a total armed strength of 3.5 million men), in more than 30 countries and overseas possessions, and aboard the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets...
...3. Used for testing anti-ballistic missile radar and anti-missile missles...
...Kunsan Kwangju Air Base...
...Naval Fleet Activity...
...Sattahip Ubon Airfield...
...Athenai ITALY Army bases: 8th Logistics Forward Group...
...Takhli Udorn Airfield 4...
...Admiral John J. Hyland CinC Air Force Pacific...
...29, 1968...
...Philip N. Whittaker Financial Management...
...Livorno Leghorn General Depot...
...bases in the Third World (Spain and Italy are included because of their strategic location vis a vis Africa and the Middle East...
...Camp Red Cloud...
...Alice Springs JAPAN (40,000 men) Army bases: Camp Asaka...
...Spencer J. Schedler Research and Development...
...Camp Kue...
...Finegeyan, Guam Naval Station...
...bases in Asia, see, "The Sun Never Sets on America's Empire," in the NACLA pamphlet, The Great South Asian War...
...Balboa Fort Clayton...
...Machinato, Area Al...
...Chia Yi Ching Chuan Kang Air Base...
Vol. 4 • October 1970 • No. 6
