Fort Huachuca Army Base

Fort Huachuca Army Base Facts

• Location: Southeastern part of Arizona
• Website:
  Visit Fort Huachuca Website ›
• Phone: (520) 533-2330
• Longitude:
  -110.34874
• Latitude:
  31.586432
• DSN:
  821-2330

Covering an area of 70,000 Acres, Fort Huachuca is located in the southeastern part of Arizona which is created in 1877 to protect the southern part of Arizona against the Chiricahua Apaches. It is also the base for the 10th Cavalry, the “Buffalo Soldiers” the Army’s black cavalry corps. It became the headquarters for the U.S. Army Strategic Communications Command which was renamed in 1973 as the U.S. Army Communications Command. Then on 1983 it became the U.S. Army Information Systems Command. The Fort Huachuca was then named the National Historic Landmark in 1976.  Fort Huachuca is now a military neighborhood within a small community in a picturesque environment.

Fort Huachuca main purpose is to provide communication and intelligence center for the U.S. military in the southern part of Arizona. This is the site for the Joint Interoperability Test Command, Army Intelligence Center and the Army Information Systems Command.  They provide facilities for field testing and test ranges for communications systems and equipment like the proving ground complex.

This has been a popular destination for movie locations like the 1963 film Captain Newman with Gregory Peck as the lead star. The military base has continually taken its popularity as the site for other succeeding movies and television series.  It also serves as the place for the Libby Army Airfield and the site for the Fort Huachuca Museum which is seen three miles from the main entrance of Fort Huachuca.

Fort Huachuca is established to offer effective, equitable and efficient management of this military base in order t give support to the mission of the soldiers in their readiness and execution of their promised obligation to the country and helps in the formation of the over all well being of the soldiers, civilian and their families and to safeguard the environment.