Fort Eisenhower, formerly known as Fort Gordon and Camp Gordon, is a United States Army installation established southwest of Augusta, Georgia in October 1941. It is the current home of the United States Army Signal Corps, United States Army Cyber Command, and the Cyber Center of Excellence as well as the National Security Agency/Central Security Service' Georgia Cryptologic Center. It was once the home of the Provost Marshal General School and Civil Affairs School. Fort Eisenhower is one of the largest US Army installations in the world with more than 16,000 military service members and 13,500 civilian personnel assigned to it.
Greetings from Fort Gordon, Georgia (Curt Teich large-letter postcard, 1943)
SP5 Lawrence E. Blackman (Darlington, SC) Hq & Hq Co, USASTC, receives the first typhus shot administered by a jet injector at Fort Gordon by John R. Gordon, representative of the R.P. Scherer Corp. of Detroit, August 1959.
Fortitude Hall is the new headquarters of the US Army Cyber Command based at Fort Eisenhower.
The Commission on the Naming of Items of the Department of Defense that Commemorate the Confederate States of America or Any Person Who Served Voluntarily with the Confederate States of America, more commonly referred to as the Naming Commission, was a United States government commission created by the United States Congress in 2021 to create a list of military assets with names associated with the Confederate States of America and recommendations for their removal.
The commission considered and provided recommendations on U.S. bases named for Confederate soldiers, such as Fort Bragg (now known as Fort Liberty), one of the largest military installations in the world, which was named for Confederate General Braxton Bragg
USS Chancellorsville was named after a victory by the Confederate Army over the U.S. Army
Image: Admiral Michelle J. Howard VCNO