Fort Bragg

Fort Bragg (Military base)

Fort Bragg is one of the largest military installations in the world (over 251 square miles (650 km2), with around 54,000 military personnel. It is named for native North Carolinian Confederate General Braxton Bragg, who had previously served in the United States Army in the Mexican-American War.

It is one of ten United States Army installations named for officers who led military units of the Confederacy in the American Civil War and also one of the U.S. Army installations named for Confederate soldiers to be renamed by The Naming Commission.

Fort Bragg maintains two airfields: Pope Field, where the United States Air Force stations global airlift and special operations assets as well as the Air Force Combat Control School, and Simmons Army Airfield, where Army aviation units support the needs of airborne and special operations forces on post.

Dead soldiers

More than 80 soldiers turned up dead in a 18 months period before June 2021, some of them confirmed homicides with one soldier found decapitated.

Units

The major commands at the installation are the United States Army Forces Command, the United States Army Reserve Command, and the headquarters of the United States Army Special Operations Command. Several airborne and special operations units of the United States Army are stationed at Fort Bragg, notably the 82nd Airborne Division, the 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne), and the Delta Force. The latter is controlled by the Joint Special Operations Command, based at Pope Field within Fort Bragg.

• U.S. Army 1st Special Forces Airborne Command) and 75th Ranger Regiment
• U.S. Army Forces Command
• U.S. Army Reserve Command
• Womack Army Medical Center
• Army's XVIII Airborne Corps:
  • Headquarters, XVIII Airborne Corps
  • 82nd Airborne Division
    • Division Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division
    • 1st Infantry Brigade Combat Team "1st Devil Brigade Combat Team"
    • 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team "2nd Falcon Brigade Combat Team"
    • 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team "3rd Panther Brigade Combat Team"
    • 82nd Airborne Division Artillery
    • 82nd Airborne Division Sustainment Brigade
  • 18th Field Artillery Brigade
  • 20th Engineer Brigade
  • 525th Military Intelligence Brigade
  • 16th Military Police Brigade
  • 44th Medical Brigade
  • 108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade
  • 50th Expeditionary Signal Battalion
• United States Army Special Operations Command:
  • 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne)
    • Headquarters and Headquarters Company
    • 1st Special Forces Command Intelligence Battalion
    • 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne)
    • 4th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne)
    • 8th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne)
    • 95th Civil Affairs Brigade (Airborne)
    • 528th Sustainment Brigade (Airborne)
  • United States Army Special Operations Aviation Command
  • John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School
• Other Army units on base:
  • United States Army Reserve Command
  • United States Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command
  • 1st Battalion, 313th Regiment (Logistics Support Battalion)
  • B Company, 249th Engineer Battalion (Prime Power)
  • Airborne and Special Operations Test Directorate
• Units at Simmons Army Airfield:
  • 82nd Aviation Regiment
• Units at Pope Field:
  • 18th Air Support Operations Group
  • 11th Special Operations Intelligence Squadron
  • 14th Air Support Operations Squadron
  • 24th Special Tactics Squadron
  • 43d Air Mobility Operations Group
  • Joint Special Operations Command
    • 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (Airborne) (1st SFOD-D) (a.k.a. "Delta Force")
    • Joint Communications Unit
  • 2nd Security Force Assistance Brigade (2nd SFAB)

 

Groups Headquartered Here

Group	Start	Description
Joint Special Operations Command		Performs special operations worldwide, including inside the United States itself, its soldiers operating like the CIA, often alongside them in covert status.
US/Army/Special Forces	9 April 1987	Unconventional warfare US Army forces, used in peacetime as well as in times of war. Including Gladio-like secret domestic army.

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