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Welcome to the Fort Hood Home page. The Fort Hood Home page provides as much information as possible on Fort Hood. Knowing Fort Hood’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Fort Hood’s Home page, you will also find Fort Hood’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Fort Hood has a population of 23302. 73.3% of Fort Hood’s inhabitants are Male, and 26.7 are female. 34.8% of Fort Hood is married and 2% own their own home. Household median income in Fort Hood is $45,417, and the individual median income is $23,427. Fort Hood’s Ethnic is the following: White(65.5%), Hispanic(22.7%), Black(17.9%), Multiple(9.1%), Asian(3.8%), Other(2.1%), Pacific(0.9%), Native(0.7%).


Fort Hood is a United States Army post located near Killeen, Texas. Named after Confederate General John Bell Hood, it is located halfway between Austin and Waco, about 60 mi (97 km) from each, within the U.S. state of Texas. The post is the headquarters of III Armored Corps and First Army Division West and is home to the 1st Cavalry Division and 3rd Cavalry Regiment, among others.


It is one of the U.S. Army installations named for Confederate soldiers to be renamed by the Commission on the Naming of Items of the Department of Defense that Commemorate the Confederate States of America or Any Person Who Served Voluntarily with the Confederate States of America. On 24 May 2022 the commission recommended the fort be renamed to Fort Cavazos, named after Gen.


Richard E. Cavazos, a native Texan and the US Army’s first Hispanic four-star general. The recommendation report was finalized and submitted to Congress on 1 October 2022, giving the US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin the authority to rename the post to Fort Cavazos. On 5 January 2023 William A.


LaPlante, US under-secretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment (USD (A&S)) directed the full implementation of the recommendations of the Naming Commission, DoD-wide.Its origin was the need for wide-open space to test and train with World War II tank destroyers. The War Department announced the location in January 1942, and the initial completion was set for that August.


As originally constructed, Fort Hood had an area of 158,706 acres (64,226 ha), with billeting for 6,007 officers and 82,610 enlisted personnel. The main cantonment of Fort Hood had a total population of 53,416 as of the 2010 U.S. Census. Fort Hood is the most populous U.S. military installation in the world.


The main business area is in Bell County, with the training countryside area of the post in Coryell County. In April 2014, the Fort Hood website lists 45,414 assigned soldiers and 8,900 civilian employees with Fort Hood covering 214,000 acres (87,000 ha).


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