Fort Magsaysay straddles the provinces of Nueva Ecija and Aurora, encompassing Palayan City, Sta.

Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino were incarcerated in Fort Magsaysay for exactly thirty days after President Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law on September 21, 1972.

[6] Fort Magsaysay's vast tracts of land has time and again attracted a number of claimants, without escaping controversy.

[9][10] On September 21, 2012, President Benigno S. Aquino III led the observance of the 40th anniversary by opening the Aquino-Diokno Memorial, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Center for Human Rights Dialogue inside Fort Magsaysay and the museum-replica of the 1973 detention facility of Ninoy (Codenamed: Alpha) and Diokno (Codenamed: Delta).

[1][2] At present, Fort Magsaysay, along with the Crow Valley Range Complex in Tarlac, provides the Armed Forces of the Philippines and allied nations ample training grounds in modern jungle warfare in large unit formation.

[12] Fort Magsaysay currently hosts the Mega Drug Abuse Treatment and Rehabilitation Center which was donated by Chinese businessman Huang Rulun after the election of President Rodrigo Duterte in 2016.

[14] In 2020, Fort Magsaysay received a budget of P273 million from the DND-DPWH Convergence Program on Strengthening and Expanding Military Readiness for National Security and Development otherwise known as Tatag ng Imprastraktura para sa Kapayapaan at Seguridad (TIKAS) (Stable Infrastructure for Peace and Security) program.

[16] Fort Magsaysay is also the only Philippine Army base that boast its own runway, apron, aircraft maintenance, and air control facilities.

Its abundance of tropical fruits, vegetation and crops of rice facilitates military personnel among those are chickens used for cockfighting events and food delivery.