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Welcome to Fort Lee. Since it’s beginnings, the Army post in central Virginia has been primarily a training facility. The post was established in 1917 to train soldiers for World War I. In World War II, what was then known as Camp Lee trained more than 300,000 soldiers. But Fort Lee underwent a transformation due to the 2005 Base Realignment And Closure (BRAC) process. In just under six years, 56 buildings were constructed on Fort Lee. Another four were renovated and millions of dollars in infrastructure has been created. The end result: the largest growth of the post in more than 60 years, $1.2 billion in investment with 4.7 million square feet of new building space About 85,000 troops now pass through Fort Lee’s classrooms each year, making it the third largest training site in the Army. The growth of the post also turned Fort Lee into a “purple” post. All branches of the armed forces — Navy, Air Force, Marines and Army — now train on Fort Lee. But the main training is Army related – specifically the Army Ordnance School, Army Transportation School and Army Quartermaster School. Many of the soldier students will get

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classroom training at the new Army Logistics University. The base also has tenants such as the headquarters of the Defense Contract Management Agency and the Defense Commissary Agency — DeCA, which has been on Fort Lee for more than 20 years. DeCA is responsible for stocking commissaries around the world. Fort Lee is also home to the U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum and the U.S. Army Women’s Museum. Finally, Fort Lee hosts two of the premiere events in the military. The Army-wide Best Warrior competition has been held at Fort Lee for nine of its 11 years and pits the winners of all 12 major Army commands around the globe against each other for top soldier of the year and top non-commissioned officer of the year. And the annual Military Culinary Arts Competitive Training Event features the top military chefs from across the U.S. Armed Forces competitng in a military-style “Top Chef” competition. Fort Lee finished most of its massive transformation in late 2011, although some construction is still ongoing to make home to all the soldiers coming here for training. It’s clear that the Army post is now poised to embrace its role as one of the Army’s largest training bases.

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MILITARY DOGS They may not be your typical military service member, but they’re just as dedicated to their job as anyone else who serves in the military. Upon entering the office at Fort Lee’s military working dogs unit, eight furry faces peer out from frames hung on the wall. These are the members of the working dog unit who are responsible for odor detection on post and in surrounding localities, such as searching for narcotics or explosives, and detecting explosives when deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. The dogs can also assist with standard law enforcement operations, such as searching vehicles. Sgt. Sergio Bermudez has worked as an explosive detector dog handler for almost two years at Fort Lee. He said currently the unit has eight dogs and six handlers, although they can have up to 16 dogs at a time. The dogs are of various breeds, including a black Labrador and German shepherds. Bermudez said the dogs are purchased by Lackland Air Force Base when they’re around 1 or2 years old and initially cost between $20,000 and$50,000. By the time the dogs arrive to Fort Lee when they’re 3 or 4, an additional $50,000 to $100,000 has been put into the dogs in the form of time, effort and training. “They don’t come to us completely trained. We actually train them up quite a bit here as well,” Bermudez said. When the dogs arrive at Fort Lee, they’re a level three. They’ll be

trained and certified to become a level five. During the week of certification, an explosives dog can only miss one and have one false, meaning there’s no odor present, out of 20 odors and 20 finds. A narcotics dog can have two misses and two false scents during certification. Once certified, the dogs go through validations every six months to make sure their skills are still up to par. Heat can affect the dogs’ proficiency, or they may just lost their drive for “the game,” Bermudez said. All the dogs are trained to work for a reward, which is a toy. “We train every single day to maintain that proficiency,” he said. The dogs aren’t the only ones who go through training though. The handlers take a course that gives them a “very basic understanding of dog behavior, how to train dogs, how to give them commands and things like that,” Bermudez said. They also get more realistic training when they arrive at Fort Lee and see “how things are really done.” People can now also enlist in the Army specifically to work with the K9 unit. Previously, handlers had to be members of the military police first and then train at the kennels. They then had to get a letter from the kennel master to take to Lackland Air Force Base saying they were good enough to be a dog handler. Bermudez said that oftentimes, people will train at the kennels and not become a dog handler because they’re not cut out for the job. Two

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MILITARY DOGS traits needed for the job are maturity and responsibility, he said. “The biggest thing that they’re probably looking for is responsibility. Because if you were to leave one of these runs open and that gate over there is open, we just lost $100,000, $150,000 dollars that could potentially go and hurt somebody,” he said. He added that maturity is important, because handlers must recognize when it’s time to flip a switch and “take that energy that you have and put it into the dog.” One rewarding thing about being a dog handler is it’s “great to see them progress,” Bermudez said. While working so closely with the dog, sometimes it’s hard to see all the growth they’ve made, but others notice, he said. When working with the dog, the handler is able to train them how they want, so “the final product is because of you” and this accomplishment is “very satisfying,” he said. Because of the amount of time handlers spend with the dogs, whether it’s training or caring for them, Bermudez said strong attachments are formed. “You get to work with your best friends and see them all the time,” he said. Bermudez said the dogs typically retire after they’re 8 years old, but it can vary. “It’s really dependant on the dog itself. Typically between eight and 10-years-old is when a military dog is going to be retired. But I’ve heard dogs working until 10 or 12-years-old, only because the proficiency hasn’t gone down,” he said.

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Because the dogs are deployed to battlefields like other military members, some may die while serving their country. Bermudez said that fallen dogs are given a service and tombstone, like one that sits outside the obstacle course at Fort Lee. The dog’s ashes go to their first handler. Most dogs who retire from serving their country are put up for adoption, “depending on the nature of the dog,” Bermudez said. The dog’s first handler is asked if they’d like to adopt, and if not, it branches out to an inner circle of people on post. Some even call and ask if any of the dogs are up for adoption, he said. Bermudez said that those looking to adopt a retired military dog are aware that their dog was trained to attack as part of their job. The new owners are not told any of the commands that would make the dog attack, he said. “People really like these dogs,” he said, which is evident by the estimated wait time of those looking to adopt a retired dog. According to saveavet.org, the wait is 12 to 18 months and they typically have more than 300 or 400 applications on file of those looking to adopt. Adoption of a retired military dog is free, but the new owner would have to pay for transportation to and from Lackland Air Force Base for their dog. Saveavet.org emphasizes that “The Department of Defense is committed to finding good homes for these four-legged warriors and a dog will never be euthanized because a suitable home cannot be found.”

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From the signing of the Base Realignment And Closure decision into law in 2005 to the snip of scissors in September 2011 — more than 50 new buildings were built on post and $1.2 billion was spent in expansion on Fort Lee. Much of that expansion and many of those new buildings were for the Ordnance Corps. What began as a patch of pine trees is now a bustling campus featuring barracks, a dining facility, a medical clinic, and instructional areas for ordnance students learning small-wheeled vehicle repair, tracked vehicle repair, maintenance for small arms, and repair and maintenance of air conditioners, generators and other items that keep the Army moving, powered up and defended. More than 20 Military Occupational Specialities in the ordnance field are trained at Fort Lee. The school is responsible for the training of more than 28,000

students annually. The Ordnance Corps is one of the oldest branches of the Army, officially founded on May 14, 1812. It is perhaps most well associated with Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. That was the home of the Ordnance Center and School for more than 65 years before it moved most of its training and its headquarters to Fort Lee as part of the Base Realignment And Closure growth at Fort Lee. The new campus is dedicated to train approximately 70 percent of all Ordnance personnel. The Ordnance School trains 23,900 students every year. The remaining personnel are trained at one of six other locations across the United States. In 2011, the Ordnance Corps consists of approximately 2,700 officers, 3,000 warrant officers, and 100,000 soldiers serving on active duty or with the National Guard or Army Reserve.

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Soldiers who help their units deploy overseas and back again train at Fort Lee every day. The headquarters and some training for the Army’s Transportation Management School moved to Fort Lee as part of the Base Realignment and Closure decision of 2005. Training the 88N Military Occupational Speciality — Transportation Management Coordinator — moved to Fort Lee along with Mobility Warrant Officer training as part of the BRAC related growth of the post. The 88N MOS is an important one because soldiers with that job are the ones that pack planes for deployment to an area of operations and for the redeployment back home. The Transportation School on Fort Lee has two real aircraft that soldiers train with — a C-130 and a C-17 — so that they can learn just how to pack an aircraft. At Fort Eustis, where some elements of Transportation Corps soldiers prepare a set of flatbed train cars for loading a pair the Transportation School remain, soldiers trained on mockups of the of trucks. planes. necessary speed for locomotive engineer training and certification. The 88N course is six weeks and one day. An entire day is devoted Fort Eustis also offers the 7th Sustainment Battallion, which has to training on the full-size simulators, including the two airplanes and watercraft essential for training 88K and 88L MOSs, which deal with a rail spur with rail cars on it for practicing loading and unloading of watercraft. wheeled vehicles. The Transportation School trains 4,772 students every year. While some of the transportation courses have moved to Fort Lee, including the Advanced Leadership Courses for Non-Commissioned Officers, which is located at the Army Logistics University, several other MOS training courses are still at Fort Eustis. That’s in part due to the unique facilities available at Fort Eustis including 27 miles of railroad track that can allow a train to get up to speeds of 35 mph — the

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The U.S. Army Quartermaster School has a long history at Fort Lee. Before its transformation into a larger logistical training base, Fort Lee was known primarily as home to quartermasters. That can easily be seen with the location of the U.S. Army Quartermasters Museum at Fort Lee. In October 1940, the land that had been Camp Lee was once again returned to military service in the build up to World War II. Even before the first barracks were constructed, raw recruits for the Quartermaster Replacement Training Center moved into tents in the heart of Camp Lee to begin training. In October 1941, the Quartermaster School moved from Philadelphia to Camp Lee to begin training officers and noncommissioned officers in the art of military supply and service. Since that time Fort Lee has remained the home of Quartermaster training. Currently, the Quartermaster School consists of seven training organizations: Joint Culinary Center of Excellence, Aerial Delivery and Field Services Department, Logistics Training Department, Joint Mortuary Affairs Center, Operations and Training Management Directorate, Petroleum and Water Department and Reserve Component Affairs Office.

The Quartermaster School at Fort Lee trains 31,691 students each year. The Quartermaster Corps provides support to the Army in a variety of ways including General Supply (except for ammunition and medical supplies), Mortuary Affairs, Subsistence (food service), Petroleum and Water, Field Services, Aerial Delivery, Shower, Laundry, Fabric/Light Textile Repair and Materiel & Distribution Management. Despite many changes, the fundamental mission of the Quartermaster Corps remains the same - supporting the individual combat soldier in the field. That mission is reflection in the regimental motto of “Supporting Victory.”

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Fort Lee is often referred to as the premier learning institution for logistics, and the premier school is Army Logistics University. Fort Lee trains Quartermaster, Transportation and Ordnance soldiers in a variety of Military Occupational Specialties. But, to further their learning and military careers many of those soldiers will come back and learn at ALU. Completed in 2009 and with a total project cost of about $130 million, the university was one of the largest Base Realignment And Closure growth projects on post and represents the merger of the transportation, quartermaster and ordnance branches into the Army Logistics Branch. The professional military school resembles an all-inclusive small-college campus situated on 46 acres with more than 300,000 square-feet of building space. The university is responsible for training military students from 63 foreign countries and will house approximately 2,300 students daily when it is fully operational. The Army Logistics University trains 23,505 students each year, including 1,083 internation students. The total average daily student population at ALU is 2,300 soldiers. At its opening July 2, 2009 Congressman Randy Forbes, R-Va., described Fort Lee as the logistics capital of the world. To house the students that attend the university, another major project which opened earlier this year was required, an on post hotel — or lodging facility — designed to house the more than 2,000 students per year that attend classes at ALU. The new lodging facility has 1,000 rooms and is designed to foster a campus like atmosphere, being located adjacent to the university. The average stay for soldiers at the massive facility is about nine days, but the longest a soldier might stay is up to three months, Marc Jannsen, general manager of the lodging facility said during a tour of the facility in January. The building cost about $86 million to build and another nearly $6.5 million to furnish. Construction began in October 2010 and was completed in September 2012 with a soft opening in December of that year. More than 200 people are employed by the facility.

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On Post Population 25,861 Military (Permanent Party) 3,659 Army 3,147 Other Military 318 Students (ALU) 194 Military Trainees/Others 9,962 Student Trainees 9,601 Army Reserve 219 Transient/Rotational 142 Civilian/Contractor 7,940 Army Civilians 2,455 Other DoD civilians 2,919 Contractors 2,438 Students/Rotational 128 Active Duty Dependents 4,300 Off Post population Active Duty Military Active Duty Dependents Army Reserve Army Reserve Dependents Military Retirees Miliatry Retiree Dependents

55,770 88 8,642 1,836 3,037 12,282 29,885

Land Total Land Acreage Miles of Paved Roads Training Areas Training Ranges

5,907 119 27 9

Troop Housing Spaces 7,472 (trainees/others) 892 (Permanent Party) Family Housing Units 1,469 (+36 under construction) Source: Fort Lee as of August 2014 Soldiers and civilians packed the house as Fort Lee presented the program, “Black History Month: Black Women in American Culture and History” at Bunker Hall, Army Logistics University.

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Three years after a release. massive construction “The new project that spanned construction will bring nearly five years, they are the Quartermaster still building new facilities facilities in line with Army at Fort Lee. standards and put them After starting phase two on par with the Ordnance of a three-phase barracks Soldiers,” Fritz Brandt, construction project a community planner for the Army’s 23rd with the Directorate of Quartermaster Brigade Public Works, said in the in early February, Fort release. Lee expects one of the Phase three of the projects to be completed project will provide a this December. 2,500-person dining There are three facility, and a 300- and Fort Lee photo contracts within phase 600-person barracks. Contractors upgrade interior spaces and rooms at the Fort Lee Building 3004 with new two of the project with a These projects are fixtures, improved structural support and modern heating and cooling systems, June 6, 2014. The $14.8 million Building 3004 renovation project upgrades a 50-year-old facility total approximate cost scheduled for fiscal year with modern technology and force protection features, which update the facility for a cost of $80 million, Director 2017. All three phases much less than if it was torn down and rebuilt. of Public Affairs with of construction are the U.S. Army Garrison estimated to cost $211 Stephen Baker said. million. The first contract was awarded to Purcell Construction So more than $200 million in construction is being added to Corporation in December 2013 at a cost of $66.4 million, the overall buildup of Fort Lee. Also, another $92.5 million was Baker said. The other two contracts are “pending award, spent to build and furnish the Fort Lee Lodge. The 1,000-room tentatively in the next two months,” Baker added. hotel — the largest hotel operating in Virginia and the largest The contract awarded to Purcell includes the demolition Army lodging facility in continental United States — officially of six buildings, the construction of two 5-story barracks, a opened last year after a soft opening in December 2013. running track, physical training pits, lawn equipment buildings These major building projects are exclusive to the 2005 and parking, Baker said. Base Realignment and Closure process, which concluded in The new barracks will feature larger spaces, shared 2011. During a roughly five-year period, about $1.2 billion was bathrooms and geo-thermal heating systems, according to a spent to double the size of Fort Lee. In just less than six years, press release from Fort Lee. 56 buildings were constructed on Fort Lee. Another four were Glenn Conner, logistics support officer with the renovated and millions of dollars in infrastructure was created. Quartermaster School, said the current barracks were built in The result is that Fort Lee’s space doubled to 15 million square the 1960s. feet of building space. “The new buildings will bring us up to par with the other All told, more than $1.5 billion has been spent in less than installation facilities,” Conner said in the release. a decade to completely transform Fort Lee with scores of new If all goes as planned, the 300-person half barracks is and renovated buildings, including adding whole new sections expected to be complete this December. The 600-person to existing base. The construction has turned Fort Lee into a barracks, physical training tracks and other facilities are small Army post into a major facility where roughly a third of all expected to be complete in September 2015, according to the soldiers in the military will be trained. 22

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