Fort George G. Meade: The First 100 Years
You may know Fort George G. Meade as a cyber and intelligence hub, but did you know that the installation used to be the home of Army Tank School after World War I? Or that it housed an internment camp at the start of World War II for primarily German-American and Italian-American citizens and foreign nationals? Learn more about the fascinating history of the third largest Army base in the U.S. in terms of number of workforce in this book. You may know Fort George G. Meade as a cyber and intelligence hub, but did you know that the installation used to be the home of Army Tank School after World War I? Or that it housed an internment camp at the start of World War II for primarily German-American and Italian-American citizens and foreign nationals? Learn more about the fascinating history of the third largest Army base in the U.S. in terms of number of workforce in this book.
204 THE FIRST 100 YEARS Entrance Processing Station, 55th Signal, the Defense Courier Service, Office of Personnel Management, 902 nd , Defense Adjudication Activities, Modular buildings for KACC, and two new Child Development Centers. Most people don’t know that the Commissary was once located along Rock Avenue and was housed in what was formally a horse stable. It was quite an experience to shop there! Also during this period, a new Commissary, Post Exchange and Officers Club, now Club Meade, were constructed. The two 18-hole golf courses no longer exist. Gigantic buildings have consumed the golf courses, like the million square foot Defense Information Systems Agency complex, Defense Media Activity, and most recently the massive East Campus construction project to accommodate the recapitalization for NSA, the newly established U.S. Cyber Command and several military service cyber elements. Several renovation projects have been completed and projects now underway have and will continue to improve efficiency and effectiveness of units that perform their missions here. Access onto and off the installation will be improved with infrastructure projects that either have been or will be funded. Traffic congestion and ways to mitigate it remain a concern but efforts are underway to address these types of issues. Another major change has been the privatization of facility maintenance functions formerly performed by the Directorate of Public Works, family housing and more recently enlisted apartments, transient lodging, water and sewer services, and gas and electric facilities. Most have proven beneficial to the installation. Aside from the physical changes, Fort Meade, at one time an Army post focused on soldiers, is now an Army post that is home to every branch of military service. Today, the overall atmosphere and environment has changed from a training and maneuver force-focused atmosphere of a traditional Army post, to a place where the most high-tech, cutting-edge technology is deployed on the new warfare domain of cyberspace. The installation has morphed from being what we considered a troop installation to something more like a college campus. In fact, a former Maryland Senator was credited as one of the first to call it the Fort Meade campus. The feeling that one gets when working and/or visiting Fort Meade is more relaxed now. As much as the installation may transform, military tradition ties the decades together through activities that will never change. Traditions like formation runs when units come together in the pre-dawn hours to doubletime around the installation to the music of cadence calls. And while the uniforms may change, other activities like changes of command, changes of responsibility and retirement events held on the McGlachlin Parade Field or at the McGill Training Center will always occur. Even with all the changes, Fort George G. Meade is still a wonderful place to work, live, play and stay! ***
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