This is a list of military installations owned or used by the United States Armed Forces both in the United States and around the world. This list details only current or recently closed facilities; some defunct facilities are found at .
A military installation is the basic administrative unit into which the U.S. Department of Defense groups its infrastructure, and is statutorily defined as any "base, camp, post, station, yard, center, or other activity under the jurisdiction ... [or] operational control of the Secretary of a military department or the Secretary of Defense." An installation or group of installations may, in turn, serve as a base, which DOD defines as "a locality from which operations are projected or supported."
The U.S. military maintains hundreds of installations, both inside the United States and overseas (with at least 128 military bases located outside of its national territory as of July 2024). According to the U.S. Army, Camp Humphreys in South Korea is the largest overseas base in terms of area. Most of foreign military installations are located in NATO countries, Middle East countries, South Korea, Australia, and Japan.
U.S. officials have been accused of collaborating with oppressive regimes and anti-democratic governments to secure their military bases, from Central America to the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. The Democracy Index classifies many of the forty-five current non-democratic U.S. base hosts as fully "authoritarian governments". Military bases in non-democratic states were often rationalized during the Cold War by the U.S. as a necessary if undesirable condition in defending against the communist threat posed by the Soviet Union. Few of these bases have been abandoned since the end of the Cold War.
Several rounds of closures and mergers have occurred since the end of World War II, a procedure most recently known as Base Realignment and Closure. Anti-racist agitation in the early 2020s led to calls for changing bases to remove the names of Confederate figures who fought against the Union during the American Civil War. The Naming Commission was created by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, and renaming began in December 2022.
Domestic bases
Domestic joint bases
- The Pentagon â located in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.
- Joint Base ElmendorfâÂÂRichardson â located 12 kilometers (8 miles) north of Anchorage, Alaska
- Joint Base Pearl HarborâÂÂHickam â located 11 kilometers (7 miles) northwest of Honolulu, Hawaii
- Joint Base McGuireâÂÂDixâÂÂLakehurst â located 29 kilometers (18 miles) south of Trenton, New Jersey
- Joint Base Charleston â located 8 kilometers (5 miles) east of North Charleston, South Carolina
- Joint Base San Antonio â located 8 kilometers (5 miles) north of San Antonio, Texas
- Joint Base Langley-Eustis â located 12 kilometers (8 miles) east of Newport News, Virginia
- Joint Region Marianas â combines Naval Base Guam, Andersen Air Force Base and Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz all located on the U.S. territory of Guam
- Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall â located 1 kilometer (1 mile) northwest of Arlington County, Virginia
- Joint Expeditionary Base Little CreekâÂÂFort Story â located in and around Virginia Beach
- Joint Base Lewis-McChord â located 17 kilometers (11 miles) southwest of Tacoma, Washington
- Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling â located in Southeast Washington, D.C.
- Joint Base Andrews â located 22 kilometers (14 miles) south of Washington, D.C.
- Joint Forces Training Base â Los Alamitos - located in Los Alamitos, California (ARNG/USAR)
United States Army
This is a list of links for U.S. Army forts and installations, organized by U.S. state or territory within the U.S. and by country if overseas. For consistency, major Army National Guard (ARNG) training facilities are included but armory locations are not.
Alabama army bases
American Samoa army bases
Alaska army bases
Arizona army bases
Arkansas army bases
California army bases
Colorado army bases
Connecticut army bases
Delaware army bases
District of Columbia army bases
Florida army bases
Georgia army bases
Hawaii army bases
Idaho army bases
Illinois army bases
Indiana army bases
Iowa army bases
Kansas army bases
Kentucky army bases
Louisiana army bases
Maine army bases
Maryland army bases
Massachusetts army bases
Michigan army bases
Minnesota army bases
Mississippi army bases
Missouri army bases
Montana army bases
Nebraska army bases
Nevada army bases
New Hampshire army bases
New Jersey army bases
New Mexico army bases
New York army bases
North Carolina army bases
North Dakota army bases
Ohio army bases
Oklahoma army bases
Oregon army bases
Pennsylvania army bases
Puerto Rico army bases
Rhode Island army bases
South Carolina army bases
South Dakota army bases
Tennessee army bases
Texas army bases
Utah army bases
Vermont army bases
Virginia army bases
Washington army bases
West Virginia army bases
Wisconsin army bases
Wyoming army bases
United States Marine Corps
Arizona Marine bases
California Marine bases
Florida Marine bases
Georgia Marine bases
Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands Marine bases
Hawaii Marine bases
North Carolina Marine bases
South Carolina Marine bases
Virginia Marine bases
Washington, D.C.
United States Navy
California naval bases
Connecticut naval bases
Florida naval bases
Georgia naval bases
Guam naval bases
Hawaii naval bases
Illinois naval bases
Indiana naval bases
Louisiana naval bases
Maine naval bases
Maryland naval bases
Mississippi naval bases
Nevada naval bases
New Jersey naval bases
New York naval bases
North Dakota naval bases
Oregon naval bases
Pennsylvania naval bases
Puerto Rico naval bases
Rhode Island naval bases
South Carolina naval bases
Tennessee naval bases
Texas naval bases
Virginia naval bases
Washington naval bases
Washington, D.C. naval bases
United States Air Force
Alabama air force bases
Alaska air force bases
Arizona air force bases
Arkansas air force bases
California air force bases
Colorado air force bases
Connecticut air force bases
Delaware air force bases
Florida air force bases
Georgia air force bases
Guam air force bases
Hawaii air force bases
Idaho air force bases
Illinois air force bases
Indiana air force bases
Iowa
Kansas air force bases
Kentucky air force bases
Louisiana air force bases
Maryland air force bases
Andrews Air Force Base
Massachusetts air force bases
Michigan air force bases
Minnesota air force bases
Mississippi air force bases
Missouri air force bases
Montana air force bases
Nebraska air force bases
Nevada air force bases
New Hampshire air force bases
New Jersey air force bases
New Mexico air force bases
New York air force bases
North Carolina air force bases
North Dakota air force bases
Ohio air force bases
Oklahoma air force bases
Oregon air force bases
Pennsylvania air force bases
Puerto Rico air force bases
Rhode Island air force bases
South Carolina air force bases
South Dakota air force bases
Tennessee air force bases
Texas air force bases
Vermont air force bases
Utah air force bases
Virginia air force bases
Washington air force bases
Washington, D.C., air force bases
West Virginia air force bases
Wisconsin air force bases
Wyoming air force bases
United States Space Force
Alaska space force bases
California space force bases
Colorado space force bases
Florida space force bases
Hawaii space force bases
Massachusetts space force bases
New Hampshire space force bases
North Dakota space force bases
United States Coast Guard
Foreign bases and facilities
Australia
Bahamas
Bahrain
Baltic states
The US does not have its own military bases in the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. However, since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, US military personnel have had a continuous rotating presence in the Baltic states, at the request of their governments. This is part of Operation Atlantic Resolve and NATO Enhanced Forward Presence. The bases are controlled by the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian militaries, housing their own personnel and military personnel from other NATO countries. US forces are based at the following sites:
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Belgium
Bulgaria
Cameroon
Canada
Cuba
Djibouti
Germany
- Ansbach
- NATO Air Base Geilenkirchen
- Buchel Air base
- Dagger Complex, Darmstadt Training Center Griesheim
- Grafenwöhr Training Area, Grafenwöhr/Vilseck
- Hohenfels Training Area/Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfels (Upper Palatinate)
- Kaiserslautern Military Community
- Katterbach Kaserne, Ansbach
- Kelley Barracks, Stuttgart
- Lucius D. Clay Kaserne (formerly Wiesbaden Army Airfield), Wiesbaden-Erbenheim
- Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl
- Maritime & International Law-U.S. Africa Command
- Panzer Kaserne, Böblingen
- Patch Barracks, Stuttgart
- Ramstein Air Base
- Robinson Barracks, Stuttgart
- Sembach Kaserne, Kaiserslautern
- Shipton Kaserne, Ansbach
- Spangdahlem Air Base
- Storck Barracks, Illesheim
Greece
Greenland (Denmark)
Honduras
Israel
Italy
Iraq
Japan
- Camp Zama
- Fort Buckner
- Kadena Air Base, Okinawa Prefecture
- Kanoya Air Field, Kagoshima Prefecture
- Misawa Air Base, Misawa, Aomori
- Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa
- Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture
- Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler, Okinawa (Note: the following camps are dispersed throughout Okinawa but are all under the administration of the MCB complex.)
- Camp Courtney
- Camp Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture
- Camp Foster
- Camp Gonsalves (Jungle Warfare Training Center)
- Camp Hansen
- Camp Kinser
- Camp McTureous
- Camp Schwab
- Camp Shields
- Naval Air Facility Atsugi
- Naval Forces Japan, Okinawa
- Sagami General Depot
- U.S. Army Garrison Okinawa
- United States Fleet Activities Sasebo
- United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka
- Yokota Air Base, Tokyo
Jordan
Kenya
Kosovo
Kuwait
Marshall Islands
Netherlands
Norway
The United States does not have its own military bases or military personnel based in Norway. The 2021 Supplementary Defense Cooperation Agreement between the US and Norway lets the US military use twelve Norwegian Armed Forces sites for training, joint NATO exercises, stopovers, and for use in a crisis or war involving NATO. The agreement allows the US military to build and periodically maintain infrastructure at the Rygge, Sola and Evenes Norwegian air bases, and at Ramsund Naval Base. These are not separate US facilities; they are upgrades to Norwegian bases to allow NATO forces to quickly deploy there in the event of a conflict.
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Somalia
South Korea
Spain
Syria
There were approximately 1,500âÂÂ2,000 U.S. forces in Syria, spread across 12 different facilities, being used as training bases for Kurdish rebels. These soldiers withdrew from Syria to western Iraq in October 2019. Meanwhile, the New York Times reported that the Pentagon was planning to "leave 150 Special Operations forces at a base called al-Tanf", where the United States is training Free Syrian Army rebels. In addition, 200 U.S. soldiers would remain in eastern Syria near the oil fields, to prevent the Islamic State, Syrian government and Russian forces from advancing in the region.
According to the Head of the Ba'athist Syria delegation to Astana talks the U.S. presence in Syria was "illegal" and "without the consent of (the) government". After the fall of the Assad regime, the United States began withdrawing its troops from Syria and transferring its military bases to the Syrian transitional government.
Turkey
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
British overseas territories
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