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The VLF transmitter is part of a joint American-Australian communications network that communicates with surface ships and submarines. Naval Station Rota, located in southern Spain, was established in It provides logistical support and serves as a strategic presence in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

It supports U. The base also includes a acre airfield and the biggest fuels and weapons facilities in Europe. Rota is home to more than 3, Navy sailors, Marines, and their families. The base also has smaller Army and Air Force attachments. The ammunition depot adjacent to Kadena Air Base at Chibana in Japan once stored one of the largest arsenals of lethal weapons on the planet.

Included in the depot were nuclear warheads, herbicides, and sarin gas. Chemical weapons leaked from the depot on two occasions in the late s and early s, hospitalizing 27 Americans.

Diego Garcia, which is home to a naval support facility, is a speck in the Indian Ocean, an atoll of the Chagos Archipelago located just south of the equator. The base hosts about half of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, which is headquartered on Okinawa, as well as other Marine group elements.

There are about 15, personnel, including U. Marines and Japanese national employees, at the station. Like many of the U. After the war, the base came under the command of the Royal Australian Air Force, then passed to several branches of the U.

In June of , the United States opened its largest military base in South Korea in the city of Pyeongtaek, about 40 miles south of the capital of Seoul. The facility, named Camp Humphreys, is the new headquarters of the U.

South Korea, which with its U. Japan established a naval base there in Camp Gonsalves, commissioned in , covers about 27 square miles of jungle, an important geographical feature for the American military to familiarize itself with jungle warfare in Vietnam in the s. Navy jointly operates with Australian military forces in western Australia. HFR stands for high frequency receiver.

The facility is the southernmost of three installations on a peninsula in Western Australia that separates the Exmouth Gulf from the Indian Ocean. The communications installation was set up to communicate with submarines and surface vessels in the Indian and western Pacific oceans. Dale M. Hansen for heroism during the battle for Okinawa, is located at the northern part of the island. It is one of several U. American troops today conduct training exercises using live fire there.

Japanese troops use the base as well. Last year, the U. The naval station at Guantanamo Bay, sometimes truncated to "Gitmo," is located in southeastern Cuba. The United States has leased the land the base sits on from Cuba since , after the Spanish-American War, and the lease can be terminated only by mutual agreement.

Cuba views the facility as a vestige of American imperialism. Detention facilities at the base are used to house combatants involved in the war on terror. About 6, people live on the Guantanamo Bay naval base, and more than a third are Jamaican and Filipino workers. Camp Fuji is located on the island of Honshu and is less than two-hours from Tokyo. The area of present-day Camp Fuji was used as a training ground for samurai warriors since at least the late 12th century during the Kamakura Feudal Government era.

The Fuji Maneuver Area is used by both the U. Army trained at the camp before it was deployed during the Korean War, before the Marines and Japanese defense forces took over the camp in the s.

Thule Air Base in Greenland is by far the largest military base overseas by physical size. It also enjoys another superlative -- it is the northernmost base of any U. Thule, headquarters of the st Air Base Group, is one of the most isolated bases in the world. Navy Fort Meade Base Guide. Moron Air Base Guide. Seattle-Tacoma Military Bases. Singapore Base Guide.

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Fort Hamilton Army Base Guide. Fort Bragg Army Base Guide. Fort Myer Army Base Guide. Camp Bullis Army Base Guide. Yokosuka Base Guide. Camp S. Butler Base Guide. Aviano Air Base Guide. Brooks City-Base. Fort Campbell Army Base Guide. These bases typically have in excess of US military personnel.

These include cooperative security locations and forward operating sites. The remaining 40 percent of US foreign bases fall under this category. According to global US military deployment data published in the Conflict Management and Peace Science Journal, the US had around , troops deployed in countries as of According to the Watson Institute at Brown University , between 1.

Established in , it hosts around 11, American and coalition service members. Covering an area of 24 hectares 60 acres , the base accommodates almost aircraft as well as drones. The coalition he led accused the ruling Taliban regime of harbouring Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader who claimed responsibility for the attacks. An estimated , people have died as a direct result of the war since , according to the Costs of War project at Brown University.

In addition, hundreds of thousands more, mostly civilians, have died due to hunger, disease and injury caused by the devastating war.

In , the US invaded Iraq after it accused long-time Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein of having weapons of mass destruction — none was found. While the overall number of U. In Afghanistan, even when there were only U. It launched a dozen in July alone, recently killing 18 civilians in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. In this period, Washington has also been seeking as yet without success to establish new bases in countries that neighbor Afghanistan for continued surveillance, reconnaissance, and potentially air strikes, including possibly leasing Russian military bases in Tajikistan.

There are U. There are, at best, minimal barriers in this country to building military bases overseas. Camp Blaz , the first Marine Corps base to be built on the Pacific Island of Guam since , has been under construction since without the slightest pushback or debate over whether it was needed or not from policymakers and officials in Washington or among the American public.

Little of any of this is even known in this country, which is why a public list of the full extent of such bases, old and new, around the world is of importance, however difficult it may be to produce based on the patchy Pentagon record available.

Unfortunately, in this country there is as yet no significant movement for ending that Baseworld of ours. Elsewhere, however, demands and protests aimed at shutting down such bases from Belgium to Guam , Japan to the United Kingdom — in nearly 40 countries all told — have taken place within the past few years.

In December , however, even the highest-ranking U.