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Fort Allen, officially Fort Allen Training Center, is a Puerto Rico National Guard military installation located on a 921-acre plot of land in Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico. ==History== * 1941: The U.S. Army Air Corps established an airfield south of the town of Juana Díaz, east of Ponce, Puerto Rico during World War II known as Losey Army Airfield in honor of Captain Robert M. Losey, an aeronautical meteorologist who in April 1940 became the United States' first military casualty in World War II. Units assigned were: 4th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, 20th Troop Carrier Squadron, 36th Fighter Group, 22d Fighter Squadron, 23rd Fighter Squadron, 32d Fighter Squadron, 417th Bombardment Squadron (25th Bombardment Group) * 1949: Losey Army Airfield was transferred to U.S. Army ground forces and became Camp Losey. * 1950: Camp Losey was renamed Fort Allen. * 1959: Fort Allen was transferred to the Army's Caribbean Signal Agency. * 1963: The U.S. Navy took control of the military post and redesignated as Naval Radio Station Fort Allen, Puerto Rico. * 1970: The Headquarters & Communications Center of Naval Communication Station NAVCOMMSTA Puerto Rico relocated from San Juan to Fort Allen. * 1980: The U.S. Navy moved the Naval Communication Station Puerto Rico Headquarters & Communication Center from Fort Allen to Naval Station Roosevelt Roads. * 1980: On 16 November 1980 Fort Allen became the home for the U.S. Army Reserve 35th Signal Battalion. * 1981: The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service INS under a presidential order reconfigured Fort Allen as a processing center for Cuban and Haitian refugees. * 1983: Fort Allen was officially transferred to the Puerto Rico Army National Guard PRARNG. The 35th Signal Battalion, along with other U.S. Army Reserve units with the 1st Mission Support Command, remain as tenants. * 1985: The Puerto Rico National Guard Language Center PRNGLC relocated to Fort Allen. * 1997: The U.S. Navy built a receiver site for the Relocatable Over-the-horizon radar ROTHR on government land at Fort Allen. * 1999: The National Guard Youth Challenge Program was established on post. * 2007: Soldiers from the 35th Signal Battalion, 1st Mission Support Command, were deployed from Fort Allen to support Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. * 2011: The Fort Allen Armed Forces Reserve Center AFRC was inaugurated and dedicated posthumously to the 6th Adjutant General of the Puerto Rico National Guard PRNG and founder of the Language Center at Fort Allen, Major General Salvador Padilla Escabi. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fort Allen (Puerto Rico)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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