Fort Knox is a U.S. Army post which occupy an area of 441 km.sq and currently holds the Army human resources Center of Excellence, being also one of only three Army posts (along with
Fort Campbell, Kentucky and
Fort Sam Houston, Texas) that still have a high school located on-post. It was the home, for nearly seventy years (1940-2010), of the U.S. Army Armor Center, and the
U.S. Army Armor School (now at
Fort Benning), being used by both the Army and the
Marine Corps to train crews on the
M1 Abrams main battle tank. Fortifications were erected near the site in 1861 (
Fort Duffield), but the construction for a permanent training center was started only in July 1918, the new camp being named after
Henry Knox, the Continental Army's chief of artillery during the
Revolutionary War and the country's first
Secretary of War. Here is also the
General George Patton Museum.
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