[3] On 6 October 2022, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin accepted the recommendation and directed the name change occur no later than 1 January 2024.
[4] On 5 January 2023, William A. LaPlante, US under-secretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, directed the full implementation of the recommendations.
The role of depot brigades was to receive recruits and draftees, then organize them and provide them with uniforms, equipment and initial military training.
Depot brigades also received soldiers returning home at the end of the war and carried out their mustering out and discharges.
During the war, this two-story wood-framed structure served as 80th Division Headquarters and as temporary residence for its Commander, Major General Adelbert Cronkhite.
Built as rapidly as the first, construction was still ongoing when the Quartermaster Replacement Training Center (QMRTC) started operation in February 1941.
By the end of 1941, Camp Lee was the center of both basic and advanced training of Quartermaster personnel and held this position throughout the war.
Over the course of the war, Camp Lee's population continued to mushroom until it became, in effect, the third largest "city" in Virginia, after Norfolk and Richmond.
There was a Regional Hospital with scores of pavilions and literally miles of interlocking corridors capable of housing over 2,000 patients at a time.
[8] During the Korean War (1950–1953), tens of thousands of soldiers arrived at Fort Lee to receive logistics training before heading overseas.
In 1956, the Fort Lee Air Force Station on post was selected for a Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) system direction center (DC) site, designated DC-04.
[1] The 1950s and 1960s witnessed almost nonstop modernization efforts as, one-by-one, Fort Lee's temporary wooden barracks, training facilities and housing units began giving way to permanent brick and cinderblock structures.
A mock Vietnamese "village" was created on post to familiarize trainees with guerrilla tactics and the conditions in which they could expect to fight in the jungles of Southeast Asia.
Part of the sixties-era Quartermaster training program also saw the first widespread local use of automated data processing equipment.
feet of gallery space and thousands of artifacts used to tell the long, proud history of women in the Army.
One of the principal parts of BRAC was the Sustainment Center of Excellence (SCoE) headquarters building project.
During a ceremony on 30 July 2010, the old CASCOM headquarters was officially retired, and the new building was proudly rededicated as "Mifflin Hall".
To help make way for the structure, the First Logistical Command Memorial – which had been located on that site since 1974 – was carefully unmoored and moved to a more prominent spot facing the main post entrance.
With the completion of the BRAC construction projects, the installation acquired 6.5 million square feet of new facilities and about 70,000 troops now train here each year.
In July 2021, the post was tasked to support Operation Allies Refuge, with a goal of helping Afghan evacuees transition to a new life in the United States at the conclusion of the war in Afghanistan.
Post leaders assembled a group called "Task Force Eagle", which spent the next four months supporting OAR.
[8] The mission was to support vulnerable Afghans and their families while they finished processing with immigration services, applied for work authorizations and underwent medical care prior to resettlement in the U.S. Fort Gregg-Adams (then Fort Lee) was the first of eight installations selected to provide temporary lodging and other living needs for the Afghan evacuees.
The post was initially identified by the U.S. Army as an east coast location that could quickly be used to provide temporary housing for Afghans and their families to finish administrative checks and undergo the necessary medical exams to qualify for a Special Immigrant Visa.
[17] Other infrastructure on the base had been renamed including the street signs along the former Lee Avenue, now Gregg Avenue, and the signage for the Gregg-Adams Officers' Club on base, into which notably Lt. Gen. Arthur Gregg had been denied entrance back in 1950 as a young Second Lieutenant, at a time when discrimination and segregation were still being practiced against African American Uniformed Personnel, even against an executive order to the contrary, signed by President Harry S. Truman two years prior.
[18][19][20] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 8.4 square miles (21.6 km2), all of it land.
The Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) does not operate any schools on post at Fort Gregg-Adams.