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4 unusual facts about Fort Campbell


Campbell High School

Fort Campbell High School, located on the Tennessee side of Fort Campbell, a major U.S. army base of the same name that straddles the Kentucky-Tennessee border

Diane Corcoran

Ranking as a Captain in 1976, Corcoran was the chief nurse at the 86th Combat Support Hospital (CSH) at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

Mighty Mike McGee

Born in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, McGee is the oldest of eight children from several marriages.

Sandia Base

The other original NSS installations similar to Manzano were: Site Baker at Killeen Base, adjacent to Gray Air Force Base and Fort Hood, Texas; Site Charlie at Campbell Air Force Base and adjacent to Fort Campbell (Tennessee and Kentucky); Site Dog at Bossier Base, adjacent to Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana; Lake Mead Base, adjacent to Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, and Medina Base, adjacent to Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.


Arrow Air Flight 1285

Arrow Air Flight 1285 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63CF jetliner, registered N950JW, which operated as an international charter flight carrying U.S. troops from Cairo, Egypt, to their home base in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, via Cologne, Germany and Gander, Newfoundland.

Bevo Howard

In addition to the Spence Air Base school in Moultrie, Hawthorne operated a number of both Air Force and Army contract schools across the Southeastern United States, notably at Fort Rucker, Alabama and Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

Jeffrey J. Schloesser

Schloesser retired from the Army in August 2010 as the Director of Army Aviation, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, G3/5/7 and former commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division and Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

Johnny Jones and the King Casuals

The band, which was originally named 'The King Kasuals', was founded in 1962 by Jimi Hendrix and bassist Billy Cox in Clarksville, Tennessee, United States, after the two were discharged from the adjacent Fort Campbell Army post, and eventually relocated to Nashville.


see also

Campbell Field

Campbell Army Airfield, a military airport at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, United States

Jeffrey J. Schloesser

Schloesser took command of the 101st from Lieutenant General Thomas R. Turner II during a change of command ceremony at Fort Campbell on November 10, 2006.

Lynne Russell

In 1989, at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, she combined her connections to the military and to her colleagues by pinning the coveted Air Assault badge on CNN’s first Special Assignments Correspondent, friend, and current fiancė, Chuck de Caro, upon his graduation from the US Army Air Assault School.

Tennessee State Route 374

#101st Airborne Division Parkway, to Fort Campbell Boulevard/ US 41-A, to the west becoming

The Lizardman

The Lizardman was born in Fort Campbell, KY, and was a Ph.D. candidate at the University at Albany before beginning his transformation.