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Naval Weapons Station Charleston

The Naval Weapons Station Charleston, accommodates 17 000 acres in land formation vast in wetlands and forestry of approximately 10 000 acres. The facility overlaps its landmass in North Charleston City and Goose Creek City, Hanahan, South Carolina.

During the heat of World War II, the installation was formerly recognized as the United States Naval Ammunition Depot, which functions as a distribution and collection point for ammunition in close proximity to the Charleston Naval Shipyard.

At present, the facility accommodates the Charleston divisional Naval Consolidated Brigade, the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command, the Naval and Space Warfare Systems Center, the Nuclear Power Training Unit, the Mobile Mine Assembly Unit, a barrage of Explosive Ordinance Detachments, the Border Patrol Satellite Academy and the Propulsion Facility. The installation is maintained on a property that lies 25 miles northerly of the city of Charleston in South Carolina, inclined on the edge of Cooper River.

The division is responsible for its provision of logistical and technical material to various components, combat subsystems, retail ammunition management and equipments to fleet operations.

Throughout the war ages the installation formalized ammunition issuance, storing, receivables and reworking. During the mobilization of the Korean War, the installation was utilized as a partial maintenance station, which was later elevated to active status in 1952. With land expansion in 1954, the base was given the name Liberty Hall Annex, which is the main purpose of the expansion. However with improvements being ordained for the organization, it received its current recognition Naval Weapons Station Charleston in the year 1965.

The base acquired 16, 344 acres in land population by the year 1990. The base currently provides support for 9 Navy Reserve Units, the Maritime Prepositioning Force along with over thirty tenant activities which includes: the 1304^th Major Port Command, the Strategic Mobility Logistics Base, the Naval Consolidated Brigade, the Propulsion Training Facility, the Military Traffic Management Command and the Nuclear Power Training Unit.

September 21, 2012
Naval Air Station Corpus Christi

Naval Air Station Corpus Christi is located in Nueces County in the coastal city in South Texas. This is a United States air base which used to be named as Truax Field, named after Lieutenant Myron Truax of the United States Navy.

The United States troops set camp in the city on July1946 under General Zachary Taylor until March 1846 and after a year the place was named Corpus Christi. On 1926, the Port of Corpus Christi was established and the on 1941, the United States armed forces commissioned Corpus Christi Naval Air Station. Currently, the Port of Corpus Christi is deepest inshore port in the whole of Gulf of Mexico and rank 6^th largest United States port which handles mostly agricultural products and oil.

Corpus Christi United States army installation houses the Corpus Christi Army Depot and the Naval Air Station Corpus Christi. It is also the home for the Chief of Naval Air Training, Drug Enforcement Agency, the United States Coast Guard, Defense Distribution Depot, Medical Naval Hospital and the Mine Warfare Command. The base is the location of the world’s largest helicopter facility.

Naval Air Station Corpus Christi mission is to provide maintenance and operations, material and service support to the operations of the United States Navy Aviation and the Naval Training Command units. The flight training facility in Corpus Christi puts emphasis on the flight maneuvering and traffic pattern operations. There were about 400,000 flights made annually in the Corpus Christi air field.

The Naval Air Station Corpus provides 6,200 non military jobs to the local industry which makes the installation the biggest employer in the city. Corpus Christi’s industry is dependent on their tourism, petrochemical and oil industry. The Port of Corpus Christi ranked 47as the largest cargo tonnage in the world.

September 21, 2012
Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island

This Island conducts training for the initialization of first level Marine Corps and is situated in Port Royal with a South Carolina encompassment. The annual population for the training exercise usually amounts to over 19 000. This is inclusive of Mississippi River male recruits along with female recruits from various continental. The sister base, classified as Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, conducts training for male recruits assigned to the western end of the Mississippi River.

Currently the installation is under management of the Brigadier command, General Fredrick M. Padilla. Tenants hosted on the facility’s property may include, the Support Battalion, Recruit Training Regiment, Training Battalion of Weapons and Field, first, second, third and fourth Recruit Training Battalion, the 6^th Marine Corps District and the Headquarters and Service Battalion.

The eastern recruiting division for this line of specialized military operatives is nestled in the south easterly corner of Lowcountry in the State of South Carolina constituted in Beaufort County, at an altitude of approximately 20 feet above the sea. The property is huddled on 7, 132 acres of land formation with space utilization of approximately 3, 262 acres for operational accommodation. The installation lies at an estimated distance of 70 miles from South Charleston in South Carolina and coordinating 45 miles from Savannah, Georgia.

The key aspiration of the facility is to conduct effective training to produce professional male recruits from the recruiting division located on the eastern section of the state. Training is also conducted to assigned female recruits from all areas in the United States. The base formalizes management for twenty-three stations and three headquarter districts. The three headquarters may include: the 4^th Marine Corp Depot, situated in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, the 1^st Marine Corp Depot, nestled in Garden City, New York and the 6^th Marine Corp Depot, hosted in Parris Island, South Carolina.

September 21, 2012
Izmir Air Base

Izmir Air Station is 200 miles from Istanbul and located on the western side of Turkey and houses the United States military forces simultaneously when the allied Land Forces Southeast Europe was activated and the arrival of the Sixth Allied Tac AF on October 1953. The presence of the United States Air Forces in Europe is responsible for all the NATO and United States units that are present in Izmir. This has been under the different control of the French, Greek, Americans, Canadian and Turkish military commanders that had served since they started the operation. The Izmir Air Station also supports the Cigli Air Base which is near the Turkish Air Force Base.

On 1970, the Turkish Air Force gained control of Cigli AB. This started the Izmir Air Base the full responsibility in their support for the USAF and US wherein Cigli was delegated as the standby base. There are two minor and two major military units owned by the Americans that are assigned at the base. The two major units are 425^th Squadron Air Base, Transportation Battalion of 840^th US Army and the United States Army Element. Squadron base gives its full support in terms of personnel in the Izmir as well as it provides support to the support facilities in the entire base.

Izmir Air Base employs 1,300 personnel despite that it has no formal area that they can call their own base. The facilities that a base should have like the offices, schools, commissaries and other basic facilities are found within the city. It has also a Base Exchange and a chapel located in the city. The military employees together with their families lived among the civilians who are living within the city boundary.

On 2002, the school who educated the children of the US military servicemen for about fifty years closed down because the base was transported in a solitary tour.

September 21, 2012
Incirlik Air Base

Incirlik Air Base which houses the United States Air Force, Turkish Air Force and the British Air Force is situated in Incirlik which is on the eastern side of Adana, Turkey and 35 miles away from the Mediterranean Sea. The base employs 5,000 airmen which includes Turkish and British Airmen. The 39^th Air Base Wing is the main military unit that is based in the Incirlik Air Base whose primary mission is to train and support the C-17 airlift services to the units assigned in Afghanistan. The base has two runways with 3048 meter long runway and 2740 meter long runways respectively both of which are situated among the 57 toughed shelters for aircraft.

The United States Army Corps of Engineers started the construction of the air base on 1951 and on February 21, 1955, the air base was named Adana Air Base and was later renamed as the Incirlik Air Base on 1958. This was constructed to serve as the emergency place for the bombers that are in operation within the region and has played a major role in the first Gulf War, Lebanon Crisis, as a transit ground for the military troops that were stationed in Iraq and served in the humanitarian missions in Kuwait and Afghanistan.

The air base served in the relief operations during the 2005 South Asia earthquake where they help in the airlifting of supplies such as the 10,000 tents from the UN headquarter in Turkey to Islamabad. The airbase also served as the comfort zone for the Americans who were evacuated from Lebanon to Turkey. It also served as the magazine storage for the 200 B61nuclear bombs owned by the Americans.

Aside from the conventional amenities that a base should have, a college education is provided, veterinary clinic and a golf course is added to the base. Its accessibility and safety measures are the attractions that are frequented by tourists that show support to the US armed forces.

September 21, 2012
Fort Hood

Fort Hood was named in honor of Confederate General John Bell Hood is a United States military installation situated in Killeen, Texas. With an area of 158,706 acres, Fort Hood has 6,007 officers and 82.610 active duty personnel, and considered to be the largest active armory post in the United States Army which has the ability to support two divisions of armory.

Fort Hood was built with the purpose of wide open space that will be used in the training and testing of the World War I tank destroyers. This is the base location for the 4^th Infantry Division, 1^st Cavalry Division, 3d Signal Brigade, Headquarters Command of the III Corps, 13th Corps Support Command, 3d Personnel Group, 13^th Finance Group, 504^th Military Intelligence Brigade, 89^th Military Police Brigade, 21^st Cavalry Brigade and other support units.

Fort Hood became part of the operation Desert Shield in Southwest Asia on August 1990. It also supports to the operation Provide Comfort and operation Desert Calm and continue serving the Persian Gulf area. It deployed soldiers on December 1992 to May 1993 in Somalia known as the Operation Restore Hope which control and command the Joint Task Force Support Command. From then on, Fort Hood is present in almost all of the deployment activities in the Caribbean Basin, Southwest Asia and Central America, supported the operation Sea Signal V and Vigilant Warrior and other emergency operations.

Aside from the peacekeeping missions of Fort Hood, it is also an active participant in worldwide disaster relief operations. It helped in the 1985 Mexico City Earthquake and the Managua, Nicaragua earthquakes. On 1990, Fort Hood continued the wide infrastructure program in the modernization of the post which at present continues the modernization while putting emphasis on the training, quality of life and force projection.

September 21, 2012
Fort Bliss Army Base

Fort Bliss was established in 1849 standing in an area of 1,700 square miles and known as the United States Army second largest unit, the White Sand Missile Range being the first. This is a United States Army that is located close to El Paso, Texas which covers the Otero and Dona Ana counties of New Mexico. This was named after William Wallace Smith Bliss, a Mexican American war hero.

Fort Bliss has the biggest Maneuver Area with a total of 992,000 acres of land providing practice area for military maneuvering located behind the National Training Center and is considered to be FORSCOM’s largest unit. It has the largest tract of unrestricted airspace in the Continental United States that is utilized in the testing and training of artillery and missile.

This also houses the United States 1^st Armored Division, 11^th air Defense Artillery Brigades, 32^nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command, 204^th Mechanized Infantry Battalion, German Air Force Air Defense Center and Joint Task Force Six. The El Paso Intelligence Center, a tactical operational intelligence center of the federal government is located at Fort Bliss’ Biggs Army Airfield. The Joint Task Force North its DoD equivalent is also located at the Biggs Field which is a assigned as military projection platform.

Fort Bliss primary mission is to provide training for the present and next generation set of soldiers as well as to develop various tactics and doctrine. Its duty is to train and ensure the continuous operation of the United States Patriot Missile Battalions. This US post served as the location for the Basic Training and Advance Individual Training (AIT) and then the training was transferred to Fort Sill after 1990. At present, the unit has four enlisted batteries under the AIT, one of which is for the officer’s Basic Course, a company that provides training for the army truck drivers and for the Captain’s Career Course.

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September 21, 2012
Ellsworth Air Force Base

The Ellsworth Air Force Base was established in the year 1942; it is situated in the Meade and Pennington Counties close to Rapid City, encompassed in South Dakota. This installation facilitates the 28^th Bomb Wing and is relatively conformed in recognition of the Brigadier, General Richard E. Ellsworth who departed in the year 1953, when his plane collided during training.

Prior to the current recognition, the air force base was formerly called Showplace of Strategic Air Command because of the effective demonstration exercised in strategic bombardment and ICBM capabilities. The group of operatives hosted in the installation is actually one of the two assigned to the B1 supersonic Lancer ricochets for the United States Air Force Wings. There are currently 8, 000 operatives facilitated on property, these may include 4000 family members, 400 civilian employees and 3, 431 military personnel’s. A total of 2, 516 retirees are housed 40 miles in proximity to the facility.

The operatives of the 28^th Bomb Wing are ascribed to the 8^th Air Force under management of the Air Combat Command. The installation is effective in formulating effective procedures in regulating duties for the B-1B and 28^th Wing Bomb Wing in providing civil engineering, supply, chaplain, food services, transportation, communications, security forces, recreation, personnel and administration services throughout the base.

The facility is effective in all aspects of provision to execute professionalism and efficiency in assigned operations. The well-being of all individuals facilitated is considered and rules are implemented to avail cooperation and healthy relations among the population. The base is well known for its variation of services provided and specialized training is progressive to uplift development for all participants hosted in this division. There are other Air Force installations with similar duties of production and with all concerns being adjoined to the United States military organizations, the goal is relatively similar.

September 21, 2012
Dyess Air Force Base

Dyess Air Force Base is situated in the southwestern of Abilene, Texas, 180 miles from the western part of Dallas. Dyess AFB houses the 7^th Bomb Wing which is allotted to the Air Combat Command Twelfth Air Force. The 7^th Bomb Wing is B-1B Lancer, one of the two bomber wings in the United States Air Force. The 7^th Bomb Wing mission is to offer world class air power and airmen for the warfighter. The second is the 28^th Bomb Wing located at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota. The base also houses the 317^th Airlift Group which functions for the C-130 Hercules aircraft.

Abilene Army Air Base was the original name of the base until it was named Dyess Air Force Base in honor of the Bataan Death March survivor, Leiutenant Colonel William Dyess. Dyes Air Force Base stands in a 6,117 acre land with a population of 13,000 civilian and military people and employs 5,000 personnel with about 200 basic facilities and has housing units for 988 families. Dyes Air Force Base gives at least $310 million in local economy.

Dyess Air Force Base attraction and unique quality is the broad collection of military aircraft that are on display which they call the “Linear Air Park” which the 30 aircraft collection used since the World War II up to the present day aircraft. All of these collections were already used except for one aircraft. The most recent addition to their display of aircraft is B-1B Lancer which they name as “The Star of Abilene” which is seen at the entrance gate to Dyess together with C-130 Hercules.

Dyess Air Force Base is belongs to the greenest bases in the United States Air Force because they made use most of their energy consumption from renewable wind energy like the biomass.

September 21, 2012
Brooks City-Base

Brooks City-Base used to be Brooks Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force base is located in San Antonio, Texas. Brooks was established on 1918 is now under the ownership of the City of San Antonio, Texas. It was named in honor of Cadet Brooks who died when he was undergoing his flight training at the time of World War I.

Brooks City-Base houses the 311^th Human Systems Wing and the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine plus the different tenant units. Brooks was formerly established on December 8, 1917 under the name of Brooks Field is known as one of the oldest United States Air Force installation servicing the World War I Army Air Service. Brooks was first named Gosport Field and then it was named Brooks Field after only three days.

Brooks City-Base was transferred to Brooks Development Authority as a joint unique project between the Federal, state and the local government whose primary aim is to make the base as the technology, science and business center. The transition happened on July 22, 2002. It was then named as Brooks City-Base. In the year 2005, the base was again listed on the BRAC (Basic Realignment and Closure) list since their removal from the list on 1995. It is now under study of the complete removal of military presence from the base.

Brooks Development Authority has shown much success in the economic development of the area which includes the 62 acre of land by offering services in the distribution and research facilities for the South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, a pharmaceutical company that is internationally known, DPT Laboratories and the emergency operations worth $25.5 million of the City/County which was launched on 2007.

Brooks City-Base commemorates Weightless 2 with a statue display on the area and the Hangar 9 as the reminder of World War I.

July 4, 2012
Arnold Air Force Base

The Arnold AFB is prominently situated in close proximity to Tullahoma, in the city of Tennessee. The installation inherited its name in commemoration of General Henry Arnold, who is recognized as the architect for the facility. Flight training for this general was administered by the renowned Wright Brothers. The military installation serves to facilitate the largest embodiment of all flight simulation accommodations worldwide. The facility was expanded in the year 2002 and development amounted to a total of 10 million US dollars to incorporate progress. The installation is developed in containment of 58 arch heaters, propulsion and aerodynamic wind tunnels, turbine and rocket engine examination cells, ballistic ranges, space environmental chambers and other variants of classified units.

The key fundamental operation for the base is to maintain the expansion of aerospace systems with the administration of hardware testing in installations to impel flight conditions. The facility also administers technology and research programs to enhance instrumentation, support and test techniques to design new systems for testing. Over 14 units contained in the facility are integrated with diverse capabilities of rare existent in the worldwide air force community. The installation’s testing facility has the compatibility to fuel flight conditions from subsonic speeds, sea to space level to over bust.

Services is being formalized for the U.S. Navy, Air Force, Army, the space administration, private industries, educational institutions, the National Aeronautics, the U.S. government and allied foreign governments. Arnold Air Force Base is not viewed as a standard military installation. The facility is nestled on a land formation of approximately 40 000 acres with 4 000 acres embodied in lake provision. There are currently 40 housing units situated on the premises to accommodate accompanied/married operatives of the military. The workforce entails a total of 300 operatives inclusive of civilian, Air Force and Navy military personnel’s.

December 10, 2011
Camp Market

Camp Market is a small installation group and part of the large installation group which is the Yongsan Installation. The base houses the Marketing office, the Air Force and Army Exchange services and the Defense Reutilization. The camp was established by the Japanese as the Imperial Japanese Army Garrison on 1904 to 1945. During that time it was mostly an agricultural land and near the Han River. The base was a convenient location for the transport of the military supplies and services by using the boats that were travelling through the Yellow Sea entering the Han River.

The Camp Market primary mission is to serve as the biggest industrial bakery capable of supplying all of the United States South Korean Army installations with their baked products such as pastries and bread. The base is also utilized as a mass storage containing about 34 warehouses confined in 900,000 square feet area. The camp employs 600 personnel many of whom are Korean Nationals while other employees are from the Korean Service Corps and other contractors.

Camp Market which is situated between Incheon and Gimpo International Airport has its own shuttle bus running daily between the camp, Yongsan Garrison and the Gimpo Airport. The camp has its own amenities including the Ball Field, swimming pool picnic areas, gymnasium, several snack bars and community clubs.

Yongsan Garrison is currently home to the 25,000 US military personnel, part of which is employed by Camp Market, DoD civilian contractors and their dependent families. There are also 1,000 Korean Aurgmentees as well as 3,000 Korean civilian employees. The other primary units stationed in Yongsan Garrison are 121 General Hospital, USFK headquarters, 18^th Medical Command, 8^th US Army headquarters, 175^th Finance, Corps of Engineers Far East District, Armed Forces Network Korea, 501^st Military Intelligence and the1^st Signal Brigade. Yongsan Garrison ranked third in the top installations of the entire US Army Communities of Excellence.

November 2, 2011
Camp Humphreys

Camp Humphreys is an army base of the United States Army which is situated near Anjung-Ri and nearby Pyeongtaek metropolis in South Korea. It is located 55 miles apart in the southern part of Seoul. The base was taken by the Americans after the World War II and was established by the Japanese during the Korean War. The base is home to the military intelligence units, 2^nd Infantry Division, 2^nd Combat Aviation Brigade and other military groups.

Camp Humphrey is getting to be the fastest growing base unit of United States Army in Korea. Known as “The Hub”, the base which houses the Desiderio Army Airfield is one of the busiest international airfields employing 60,000 air flights yearly. The United States Air Force and the United States Army provides transportation and support to the 9,500 military personnel and their 1000 families. Any plan of relocation of the US military facilities will make the population grows to 45,000 by the year 2016.

The base is complete with all the major facilities such as commissary, movie theater, Post Exchange, several fitness centers, children’s water park, food court, indoor swimming pool with and Olympic sized outdoor swimming pool, slot machines used in gambling which is known as the Gateway, three shoppetes, bowling alley and several Pizza joints. It is also home to the Eight United States Army confinement facility which houses soldiers who is listed to for transfer in the United States military prison.

At present, the base has no primary headquarter that is housed inside the base. Colonel Joseph Moore is the base commander of Camp Humphreys whose mission is to be part of the United States Army’s endeavor to ready their forces in future challenges of any upcoming war. Camp Humphreys has plans of expansions which includes the Yongsan Garrison and the 2^nd Infantry Division.

November 1, 2011
Camp Hovey

Camp Hovey is part of Army military base of United States which is located in South Korea .It stands in 4000 acres of land forty one miles away from the City of Seoul. The base was named in honor of Master Sergeant who was actually killed on action at the Pork Chop Hill in his valiant effort in saving his troops during Korean War. Honey Cut is the road connecting the Camp Hovey to its adjacent larger base Camp Casey. The base is part of Casey Enclave which consists of several installations.

The base houses the Iron MPs, 102^nd Military Intelligence Battalion, 1/15 Field Artillery, 4/7 Cavalry, Iron Brigade’s Brigade Troops Battalion, 210^th Fires Brigade and many others. Task Force 2/72 which is a combined weaponry battalion of 2/72 Armor and 1/9 Infantry was also housed at Camp Hovey from the disbanded Dragon Force or Task Force 2/72. Moreover, 1/9 Infantry comprises other part of the combined 1/9 Infantry and 2/72 Armor before the deployment to Iraq in returning to the Fort Carson in Colorado.

Camp Hovey is complete with all the modern amenities a base camp needs such as fitness centers, libraries, recreational facilities such as movie theater, billiard hall, ping pong, The other facilities were shared by Camp Hovey with the other larger units but the smaller installations have their own facilities that are of service to the military personnel and their dependent families inside the base. The Unites States Armed Forces ensures that the living conditions of those living at Camp Hovey will be acceptable and will likewise be comparable with their way of living from their country of origin. The plan for relocation of all the United States military facilities in the northern part of Seoul will lead to an increase in population by 2016.

October 31, 2011
Camp Eagle

Camp Eagle used to be called R-401and was officially named Camp Eagle on July 3, 1989. This was established as a joint effort of both the United States Government and Republic of Korea as their first major project. Camp Eagle is basically the newest and the most modern army installation found in Republic of Korea with its two major installation unit, the Company G, 2^nd Battalion 52^nd Aviation Regiment and the 1^st Squadron, 6^th Cavalry Regiment. This army installation also houses the 520^th Maintenance Company and Lockheed Martin for the civilian contractors while the 194^th Maintenance Battalion supports the 1-6^th Cavalry and OL-B Det 2, 607^th Weather Squadron.

On June 1996, Camp Eagle had undergone reorganization and was part of Area III whose unit’s responsibilities became under Camp Long which is seven miles ways from Camp Eagle. However, Camp Eagle has its own fire department, community club, small Post Exchange, barber shop, ATM, gym, softball field and KATUSA Snack Bar. Other services also include the Airfield Safety, Airfield Operations and the Chapel. The launching of the new Community Activity Center greatly improved the quality of living for the Camp Eagle military men and their dependent families.

This was opened on July 18 by Col. John E. Dumoulin, the US Army Garrison Humphrey Commander who told the residents that the intention of the community center is to complete and improve the quality of their life. The community center will now be a place for entertainment and relaxation for the unit personnel. This includes a movie and television room, pool tables, ping pong, video game center, reading room, music room and other entertainment facilities. The ongoing projects with in the area are library, internet facility, coffee shop and will also offer other activities such as trips to nearby ski destinations. Because of these modern and complete facilities, Camp Eagle became the favorite among the residents.

October 30, 2011
Camp Castle

Camp Castle stands in 48.6 acres of land located in Dongducheon 40 miles away from Seoul, South Korea. Camp Castle only few steps away from Camp Casey, the reason why many facilities are being shared by both installations. The camp houses the United States Second Infantry Division, Second Engineer Battalion and the 70^th Support Battalion which includes the HHC Company and the Maintenance/Distro Company Alpha Company. The Camp has its own NCo/Enlisted Club, dining facility, motor pool, racquet court, a gym, small laundry shop and its own barracks.

A pedestrian bridge was built connecting the two camps while easing the traffic on the roadway. It houses also the Area I HazMart which is a hazardous material recycling and distribution area plus the big warehouse used in keeping the entire unit’s furniture. However, there were services that were not available in the installation but the 2^nd Infantry Division has a hub system that provides all the necessary services that can not be found within the area. At present, Camp Castle enjoys all the comfort of an installation in all the United States based in South Korea.

Camp Castle employs 630 personnel, 500 of which are United States military employees and the rests are contractors of the Department of Defense. Last June 2001. Camp Castle was included in the forty two camps that were given the pay out of $150 a month as Hardship Duty Pay. This is given to compensate the permanent personnel or to the temporary personnel that were assigned for thirty consecutive days in any of these forty two camps. The Hardship Duty Pay is provided as a financial recognition for the inadequacy of the living condition of the military employees that were assigned in the installation. On 2006, Camp Casey is the headquarters of Installation Management Command (IMCOM) US Army Garrison Casey Enclave.

October 29, 2011