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11 unusual facts about Fort Leonard Wood


61st Air Defense Artillery Regiment

The 61st Battalion was redesignated as the 61st Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion on 21 August 1950 and assigned to the 6th Armored Division, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, where it was inactivated 16 March 1956.

Daniel Rakowitz

He was born in 1960 in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, where his father was a criminal investigator for the U.S. Army.

Fort Irwin Police Department

New FIPD Officers, with no prior law enforcement experience, are sent to the Department of Army Police Academy in Fort Leonard Wood, MO for nine weeks.

Fort Leonard Wood

Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, a census-designated place (CDP) in Pulaski County, Missouri, United States

Gijon Robinson

He currently resides in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri and attended high school at Waynesville High School.

Hugh Mott

In tribute to Major General Mott, the U.S. Army Engineer School, located at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, named the Bachelor Officer's Quarters building "Mott Hall" in his honor.

Jordan Sonnenblick

Sonnenblick was born on July 4, 1969, at the army base in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.

Luis S. Fraticelli

Fraticelli, born in 1961, is a native of Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, where his father was serving in the United States Army and relocated to his parents' native Puerto Rico when he was 10 years old.

Military engineering of the United States

The Engineer Regiment is headquartered at Fort Leonard Wood, MO and commanded by the Engineer Commandant, currently a position filled by an Army Brigadier General from the Engineer Branch.

Rick Blubaugh

Rick Brian Blubaugh (born December 28, 1964, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri) is an American former professional soccer player.

Texas Military Forces

Through this time, each member goes to Civil Support Skills Course at Fort Leonard Wood, MO, and many advanced WMD detection, sampling and laboratory courses.


Bob Artley

While in the Army in 1943, he met and married fellow lab technician and Women's Army Auxiliary Corps enlistee Virginia E. (Ginny) Moore, of South Fork, PA while they were both stationed at Fort Leonard Wood, MO.

Ray Boland

He then began training at Fort Leonard Wood and Fort Sill.

Sapper Tab

To wear the Sapper Tab, a soldier must graduate from the Sapper Leader Course (SLC) which is operated by the U.S. Army Engineer School at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.

To be awarded the Sapper Tab, a service member may or may not hold the military occupation specialty code (MOS) designation as a Combat Engineer (Sapper), but must have graduated from the Sapper Leader Course (SLC), which is operated by the U.S. Army Engineer School at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.