2d Bn. (TS) (IN), 393d
Regiment
Fort Chaffee, AR
Fort Chaffee History
Fort Chaffee now serves as a maneuver training center for National Guard and U.S. Army Reserve soldiers. In fact, more than 50,000 soldiers train at Fort Chaffee annually. Set in the rolling hills of Western Arkansas, the post is a major mobilization site and up to 26,000 soldiers will report to Fort Chaffee should our nation ever return to war.
From its early days during World War II, Fort Chaffee was one of this nation’s key military installations. Fort Chaffee is the place where many thousands of young men saw their first days of military service. With its diverse terrain and an excellent river crossing site, it will continue to grow in importance and to serve the nation.
Fort Chaffee has also served its country after the war. From 1975 through 1976, Fort Chaffee received upwards of 50,000 Indochinese refugees. So skillfully was this task handled that, within five years, the post was called upon to help process more than 20,000 Cuban refugees.
Important to area sportsmen, the Fort Chaffee Wildlife Management Area offers some of the best hunting and fishing in Western Arkansas. Fort Chaffee has a large whitetail deer population and is very popular with archery hunters.
| Sept 9, 1941 Construction begins | 1980-82 Fort Chaffee designated Cuban refugee Resettlement Center. 25,390 Cuban refugees were processed through |
| Dec 7, 1941 First soldiers arrive | 1942-1946 6th, 14th and 16th Armored Divisions train at Camp Chaffee |
| 1943-1946 3,000 German prisoners of war encamped at Camp Chaffee | 1983 Motion picture "A Soldiers Story" filmed |
| 1986 Joint Readiness Training Center pilot program announced | 1987 Motion picture "Biloxi Blues" filmed |
| June1948-1957 Home, 5th Armored Division | 1987 Joint Readiness Training Center begins training |
| March 21, 1956 Camp redesignated Ft. Chaffee | 1993 Joint Readiness Training Center ends training at Ft. Chaffee |
| 1957-1959 Fort Chaffee "Home of U. S. Army Training Center, Field Artillery" Moved to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in 1959 | 1993 Joint Readiness Training Center ends training at Ft. Chaffee |
| 1961-1962 Home, 100th Infantry Division | 1996 Battalion Activation as 2d Bn, 3rd RTB |
| 1965 Fort Chaffee reserve forces training site | 1997 Bn redesignated 2d Bn, 120th Inf Bde |
| 1965 Fort Chaffee reserve forces training site | 1998 Bn moves to its current home in Building 2555 |
| 1975 Fort Chaffee Refugee Processing Center for Indochinese refugees. 50,809 Vietnamese refugees were processed. |
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