Fort Monmouth
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Fort Monmouth is a United States Army post in Eatontown, New Jersey. At its peak during World War II, Fort Monmouth measured 1,713 acres (6.9 km²), and had billeting space for 1,559 officers and 19,786 enlisted personnel.
The original name of the installation was Camp Little Silver. It was renamed Camp Alfred Vail shortly after its establishment in 1917. The Chief Signal Officer authorized the purchase of Camp Vail in 1919. The Signal Corps School relocated to Camp Vail from Fort Leavenworth that year. The Signal Corps Board followed in 1924. In August 1925 the installation was granted permanent status and was renamed Fort Monmouth. It was named in honor of the soldiers of the American Revolutionary War who died in the Battle of Monmouth; aptly, it is also located in Monmouth County.
Today, Fort Monmouth is home to the Communications and Electronics Life Cycle Management Command (CE-LCMC). There are parts of the Army’s information technologies and integrated systems center. Though no longer the home of the U.S. Army Signal Corps (after its move to Ft. Gordon, Georgia in the 1970s), Ft. Monmouth is sometimes referred to as the "Soul of the Signal Corps" and houses the official Time Capsule of the Army Signal Corps.
Fort Monmouth is also noted for its Sun Eagles Golf Course, one of the better military golf courses in the nation.
School-aged children at the Fort in grades 9 through 12 attend Monmouth Regional High School in Tinton Falls, part of the Monmouth Regional High School District.
Rosenbergs
Julius Rosenberg had worked as a radar inspector at Fort Monmouth in 1942 and 1943. It is from the fort that he was accused of stealing proximity fuze plans and passing them on to the Soviets. Documents released by Russia after the Cold War showed that Julius Rosenberg was indeed a spy. In October of 1953, Joseph McCarthy claimed that Julius Rosenberg had set up a wartime spy ring at Fort Monmouth and that the ring might still be in operation. Two Fort Monmouth scientists, Joel Barr and Alfred Sarant fled to the Soviet Union. [link]BRAC listing
Fort Monmouth is planned for closure on the Base Realignment and Closure, 2005 (BRAC 2005) list. An appeal to remove the base from the list was made to the BRAC commission, but was eventually rejected.
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