If China began bombing India and Taiwan tomorrow, would most Americans support the USA intervening or not? Devens also housed a prisoner of war camp for German and Italian prisoners from 1944 to 1946. The nearby Devens Reserve Forces Training Area is located in Lancaster. Since the closing of the military base, many of the existing buildings have been renovated or reconstructed; housing developments now exist, along with a growing business park, a new hotel, restaurants, several public and private schools, a disc golf course,[dead link] and a golf course. It was also the home of the 39th Engineer Battalion (CBT) until the 39th was inactivated in 1992. We were stationed in Germany in 1975 through 1978.  Boot Camp Graduation? A memorial erected in 1934 marks the location today. Quick facts. Did you proudly serve in 366TH MP DETACHMENT (CID)? The 36th Medical Battalion including the 595th Medical Company and the 46th Combat Support Hospital, the 46th CSH was inactivated July 15, 1994. Efforts to make Devens the state's 352nd town failed on the local level in 2006, and these residents say a legislative solution could be their final option.[5]. 380th Military Police Detachment U.S. Army. 1st Class Paul Mantha, formed a litter team with an Army lieutenant general and a colonel. o 366th MP Detachment (CID), Devens Reserve Force Training Area, Mass., 15 soldiers. The legend that Lieutenant Drane mysteriously disappeared after the duel and his remains were later discovered in a walled off part of Fort Independence is not true. Maj. Michael Coughlin of the OCAR legal counsel's office became the senior Army representative at the on-site FBI Command Post and helped coordinate information. Thank you for signing up for the VetFriends Newsletter! Fort Devens was the home of the 10th Special Forces Group (Mountain), less 1st Battalion based in (West) Germany, from 1968 until the Group's move to Fort Carson, Colorado in 1995. Fort Devens is an inactive United States Army military installation in the towns of Ayer and Shirley, in Middlesex County and Harvard in Worcester County in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Jacqueline Gopie, a medic, and Lt. Col. Timon Oujiri, a legislative affairs officer and one-time mortuary assistant. Although closed in 1996, the fort was reopened the next day as the Devens Reserve Forces Training Area. Activated 29 August 1944 at Fort Custer, Michigan 234th Military Police Detachment U.S. Army. 53rd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, List of military installations in Massachusetts, "Base Camp Integration Lab opens at Fort Devens", "Judge Kent to enter Massachusetts prison Monday", "Concentration Camp Located at Ft. Devens", "Army plans to build training center at Devens", http://www.lowellsun.com/ci_17377869?IADID=Search-www.lowellsun.com-www.lowellsun.com, http://www.massdevelopment.com/press-room/press/releases/devens-seeks-town-identity/, Combat Capabilities Development Command Soldier Center, David S. Connolly Armed Forces Reserve Center, United States Coast Guard Buoy Depot, South Weymouth, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fort_Devens&oldid=970571665, Buildings and structures in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Buildings and structures in Worcester County, Massachusetts, World War II prisoner of war camps in the United States, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with dead external links from July 2013, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Lieutenant Colonel Charlette K. Woodward replaced Lieutenant Colonel Steven F. Egan in a Change of Command ceremony as of June 2015, Headquarters and Service Company & Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion (Logistical Support Battalion), 313th Regiment, 174th Infantry Brigade, FIRST ARMY EAST, 2nd Battalion (Training Support Battalion), 310th Regiment, 174th Infantry Brigade, FIRST ARMY EAST, Detachment 1 J2/JT, United States Central Command, Army Reserve Element (ARE), 395th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, United States Army Security Agency Training Center and School, USNSCC Recruit Training Command New England (Summer only), This page was last edited on 1 August 2020, at 03:09.