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The 120 acre Fort Hamilton Army Installation has long stood guard over the entrance to New York Harbor, appearing as an ever-vigilant symbol of U.S. military strength against hostile foreign navies, smugglers, and saboteurs.
But for the first time in its nearly two hundred year history, Fort Hamilton is being utilized as a staging and support area to combat an entirely different type of enemy: the widespread devastation of mother nature. Continue reading »
Fort Hamilton’s Community Club [Image source: Wikipedia Commons].
Last Sunday, eleven years to the day after American boots first hit the ground in Afghanistan, an AWOL soldier who claims he was deployed a total of three times in Afghanistan, and once in Iraq, attempted to surrender to military authorities at Fort Hamilton, as reported by Elizabeth Flock for U.S News & World Report.
In an account on the blog Unoccupier, a person identifying himself as Sgt. Micah Turner writes that he turned himself in at the Southwest Brooklyn Army installation not once but twice, which a pro bono attorney says may buy him an additional 30 days of freedom. Continue reading »
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YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Yesterday on the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the U.S. Army’s Installation Management Command [IMCOM] issued a press release to announce that the New York Army National Guard anti-terror task force known as Empire Shield will remain in place at Fort Hamilton. Continue reading »
The Home Reporter’s Denise Romano is inviting readers to commence their Memorial Day Weekend by catching a performance of the U.S. Army Soldier Show this Friday, May 25, at Bay Ridge’s own Fort Hamilton Army Base.
The show, called Army Strong, is free, open to the public and set to play at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Friday. Meant to coincide with Fleet Week 2012, it highlights the talents of active-duty soldiers in an entertaining way. Click Here for More Details