Fort Dix, the common name for the Army Support Activity (ASA) located at

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, is a

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post. It is located south-southeast of

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. As of the

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, Fort Dix

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(CDP) had a total population of 7,716,DP-1 - Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data for Fort Dix CDP, New Jersey
,

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. Accessed 17 June 2013.New Jersey: 2010 - Population and Housing Unit Counts - 2010 Census of Population and Housing (CPH-2-32)

, p. III-5, August 2012. Accessed 8 June 2013. of which 5,951 were in New Hanover Township, 1,765 were in Pemberton Township, and none were in Springfield Township (though portions of the CDP are included there). Established in 1917, Fort Dix was in 2009 combined with adjoining U.S. Air Force and Navy facilities to become Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JB MDL) in 2009. However, it remains commonly known as "Fort Dix", "ASA Dix", or "Dix". During 2015 to 2016, Colonel Shelley Balderson was commander, making her the first female commander of Fort Dix in the base's century-long history.

Overview

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Fort Dix was established on 16 July 1917, as Camp Dix, named in honor of Major General

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, a veteran of the

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and the

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, and a former

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, and

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. Camp Dix was home to the 153rd Depot Brigade. The role of World War I depot brigades was to receive recruits and draftees, then organize them and provide them with uniforms, equipment, and initial military training. Depot brigades also received soldiers returning home at the end of the war and carried out their mustering out and discharges. Dix has a history of mobilizing, training, and demobilizing soldiers from as early as

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through April 2015, when Forts Bliss and Hood in Texas assumed full responsibility for that mission. In 1978, the first female recruits entered basic training at Fort Dix. In 1991, Dix trained

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i civilians in basic military skills so they could take part in their country's liberation. Dix ended its active Army training mission in 1991 due to

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recommendations, which ended its command by a two-star general. Presently, it serves as a joint training site for all military components and all services. In 2009, Fort Dix and the adjacent Air Force and Naval facilities were consolidated into a single secure facility, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. The supporting component is the

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, and base operations are executed by the

87th Air Base Wing The 87th Air Base Wing is the host wing at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JB MDL), New Jersey and its headquarters are on the McGuire Air Force Base portion of the Joint Base. The wing provides installation support to commands at McGuire Air F ...

, which provides installation management to all of JBMDL while both the Navy and Army retain command and control of their missions, personnel, equipment, and component-specific services. Neither the Navy nor the Army base is subordinate to the Joint Base; each is simply supported by the joint base in base operations such as utilities, child-care centers, gyms, and other services, but each one reports through its own service-specific command chain and has its own commander (the Navy a captain and the Army a colonel). The commanders of both Fort Dix and Lakehurst serve also as deputy joint base commanders.

Units assigned

305th Aerial Port Squadron * Marine Aircraft Group 49 * 99th Readiness Division * 1st Brigade, Atlantic Training Division, 84th Training Command * USCG Atlantic Strike Team * United States Air Force Expeditionary Center *

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* NCO Academy * Navy Operational Support Center * 174th Infantry Brigade * Fleet Logistics Squadron (VR-64)

History

:''See footnote'' Construction began in June 1917. Camp Dix, as it was known at the time, was a training and staging ground for units during World War I. Though the camp was an embarkation camp for the

New York Port of Embarkation The New York Port of Embarkation (NYPOE) was a United States Army command responsible for the movement of troops and supplies from the United States to overseas commands. The command had facilities in New York and New Jersey, roughly covering the ...

, it did not fall under the direct control of that command, with the War Department retaining direct jurisdiction. The camp became a demobilization center after the war. Between the World Wars, Camp Dix was a reception, training, and discharge center for the

Civilian Conservation Corps The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government unemployment, work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. The CCC was a ...

. Camp Dix became Fort Dix on 8 March 1939, and the installation became a permanent Army post. During and after World War II, the fort served the same purpose as in the First World War, serving as a training and staging ground during the war and a demobilization center after the war. On 15 July 1947, Fort Dix became a basic-training center and the home of the 9th Infantry Division. In 1954, the 9th moved out and the 69th Infantry Division made the fort home until it was deactivated on 16 March 1956. During the

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, rapid expansion took place. A mock

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ese village was constructed, and soldiers received Vietnam-specific training before being deployed. Since Vietnam, Fort Dix has sent soldiers to

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, and

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U.S. Coast Guard site

The

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(AST) of the U.S. Coast Guard is based at Fort Dix. As part of the

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, the AST is responsible for responding to oil-pollution and hazardous-materials release incidents to protect public health and the environment.

Federal Correctional Institution

Fort Dix is also home to Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institution, the largest single federal prison. It is a low-security installation for male inmates located within the military installation. As of 19 November 2009, it housed 4,310 inmates, and a minimum-security satellite camp housed an additional 426.

Mission realignment

Knowing that Fort Dix was on a base closure list, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) attempted to save the U.S. Army post during 1987. The USAF moved the Security Police (SP) Air Base Ground Defense school from

Camp Bullis Camp Bullis Military Training Reservation is a U.S. Army training camp comprising in Bexar County, Texas, USA, just northwest of San Antonio. Camp Bullis provides base operations support and training support to Joint Base San Antonio. The camp i ...

, Texas, to Dix in fall 1987. Putting 50–100 SP trainees on a commercial flight from San Antonio, Texas, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, every few weeks was eventually realized to be not cost effective, so the school was later moved back to Camp Bullis. Fort Dix was an early casualty of the first

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process in the early 1990s, after having lost its traditional basic-training mission, but advocates attracted Army Reserve interest in keeping the post as a training reservation. With the reserves, and millions of dollars for improvements, Fort Dix has grown again to employ 3,000. As many as 15,000 troops train there on weekends, and the post has been a major mobilization point for reserve and National Guard troops since the

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on New York City and Washington, DC. Fort Dix has completed its realignment from an individual training center to a FORSCOM Power Projection Platform for the Northeastern United States under the command and control of the Army's Installation Management Command. Primary missions include training and providing regional base operations support to on-post and off-post active component and U.S. Army Reserve units, soldiers, families, and retirees. Fort Dix supported more than 1.1 million man-days of training in 1998. More than 13,500 persons, on average, live or work within the garrison and its tenant organizations. Devens Reserve Force Training Area in Massachusetts is a subinstallation of the ASA.

2005 realignments

In 2005, the US Department of Defense announced that Fort Dix would be affected by a base realignment and closure. For base operations support, it became part of

, N.J. It was the first base of its kind in the United States and is the Department of Defense's only three-service joint base. ASA, Fort Dix occupies and supports all training across 31,000 of the joint base's 42,000 acres.

Attack plots

1970

In 1970, the

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planned to detonate a nail bomb at a noncommissioned officers' dance at the base to "bring the war home" and "give the United States and the rest of the world a sense that this country was going to be completely unlivable if the United States continued in

." The plot failed the morning of the dance, when a bomb under construction exploded at the group's

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, New York City, townhouse, killing three members of the group.

2007

On 8 May 2007, six individuals, mostly ethnic

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n Muslims, were arrested for plotting an attack against Fort Dix and the soldiers within. The men are believed to be

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ic radicals who may have been inspired by the ideologies of

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. The men allegedly planned to storm the base with automatic weapons in an attempt to kill as many soldiers as possible. The men faced charges of

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to kill U.S. soldiers.

1969 stockade riot

On 5 June 1969, 250 men imprisoned in the military stockade for being

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, rioted in an effort to expose the "unsanitary conditions".

''Ultimate Weapon'' monument

In 1957, during their leisure hours, Specialist 4 Steven Goodman, assisted by PFC Stuart Scherr, made a small clay model of a charging infantryman. Their tabletop model was spotted by a public-relations officer, who brought it to the attention of Deputy Post Commander Bruce Clarke, who suggested the construction of a larger statue to serve as a symbol of Fort Dix. Goodman and Scherr, who had studied industrial arts together in New York City and were classified by the Army as

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s, undertook the project under the management of Sergeant Major Bill Wright. Operating on a limited budget, and using old railroad track, Bondo, and other available items, they created a 12-foot figure of a charging infantryman in full battle dress, representing no particular race or ethnicity. By 1988, years of weather had taken a toll on the statue, and a restoration campaign raised over $100,000. Under the auspices of Goodman and the Fort Dix chapter of the

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, the statue was recast in

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and its concrete base was replaced by black

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. The statue stands 25 feet tall at the entrance to Infantry Park. Its inscription reads ::This monument is dedicated to ::the only indispensable instrument of war, ::The American Soldier— ::The Ultimate Weapon ::"If they are not there, ::you don't own it." :::17 August 1990

Geography

According to the

, Fort Dix had a total area of 10.389 square miles (26.909 km²), of which 0.127 square mile (0.329 km²) is covered by water (1.22%).US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990

. Accessed 4 September 2014.

Climate

The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the

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, Fort Dix has a

humid subtropical climate A humid subtropical climate is a zone of climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and cool to mild winters. These climates normally lie on the southeast side of all continents (except Antarctica), generally between latitudes 25° and 40° ...

, ''Cfa'' on climate maps.

Demographics

Census 2010

Census 2000

As of the

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7,464 people, 843 households, and 714 families wereresiding in the

. The

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was 663.9 people per square mile (256.4/km²). The 1,106 housing units had an average density of 98.4 homes per square mile (38.0/km²). The

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of the CDP was 58.4% White, 35.6% African American, 0.4% Native American, 1.3% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 2.5% from other races, and 1.7% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 22.8% of the population.DP-1 - Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000 from the Census 2000 Summary File 1 (SF 1) 100-Percent Data for Fort Dix CDP, New Jersey
,

. Accessed 8 June 2013. Of the 843 households, 63.6% had children under 18 living with them, 75.2% were married couples living together, 6.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 15.3% were not families. Of all households, 14.7% were made up of individuals, and none had someone living alone who was 65 or older. The average household size was 3.06, and the average family size was 3.39. In the CDP, the age distribution was 13.6% under 18, 8.1% from 18 to 24, 62.1% from 25 to 44, 15.1% from 45 to 64, and 1.1% who were 65 or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females, there were 491.0 males. For every 100 females 18 and over, there were 734.5 males. The median income for a household in the CDP was $41,397, and for a family was $41,705. Males had a median income of $31,657 versus $22,024 for females. The

per capita income Per capita income (PCI) or total income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year. It is calculated by dividing the area's total income by its total population. Per capita i ...

for the CDP was $10,543. About 2.5% of families and 3.2% of the population were below the

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, including 3.2% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.

Transportation

New Jersey Route 68 Route 68 is a state highway located in Burlington County in the U.S. state of New Jersey, serving as the main connector between the New Jersey Turnpike and the Fort Dix entity of Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst (JB MDL). It runs from Co ...

links Fort Dix to

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near the latter's interchanges with the

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, U.S. Route 130, and Interstate 295.

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provides service to and from

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on the 317 route.

Education

The

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lists "Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst" in Burlington County as having its own school district.
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Department of Defense Education Activity The Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) is a federal school system headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, responsible for planning, directing, coordinating, and managing prekindergarten through 12th grade educational programs on behal ...

does not operate any schools on that base. Students on McGuire and Dix may attend one of the following in their respective grade levels, with all siblings in a family taking the same choice:

North Hanover Township School District The North Hanover Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district which serves children in pre-Kindergarten through sixth grades from North Hanover Township and from the McGuire Air Force Base unit of Joint Bas ...

(PK-6),

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(7-12), and

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's 1988 C64 and

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video game '' Rocket Ranger''; the game is based on an alternate World War II scenario, wherein the

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discover lunarium, which could allow them to win the war unless a young American scientist stops them.

Notable people

* Jay Berger (born 1966), a former professional tennis player, reached a highest world ranking of number seven. * Bruce Hill (born 1964), is former wide receiver for the

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. *

Jim Riggleman James David Riggleman (born November 9, 1952) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) manager and bench coach who coached with several teams between 1989 and 2019. He is currently the manager for the Billings Mustangs of the independent ...

(born 1952) is a former professional baseball player and manager. *

Mel Brooks Mel Brooks (born Melvin James Kaminsky; June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian and filmmaker. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. He began ...

(born 1926) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. *

Franco Harris Franco Harris (March 7, 1950 – December 20, 2022) was an American professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons, primarily for the Pittsburgh Steelers. A nine-time Pro Bowl selection ...

(1950-2022) was a National Football League Hall of Fame running back, born in Fort Dix.

References

External links

Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst
official website
ASA - Dix
official website (U.S. Army Support Activity)

Army Support Activity–Dix (ASA-Dix) official website
IMCOM Atlantic Region
official website (U.S. Army Installation Management Command)

from the Fort Dix website

details of history, area, military units, etc. {{Authority control 1917 establishments in New Jersey Civilian Conservation Corps camps Civilian Conservation Corps in New Jersey

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Military installations in New Jersey

New Hanover Township, New Jersey Pemberton Township, New Jersey Pine Barrens (New Jersey) Populated places established in 1917 Springfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey

Military installations established in 1917