Fort Greely

This article is about the military base near Fairbanks, Alaska. For the census-designated place, see Fort Greely, Alaska. For the former military base on Kodiak Island, see Base Support Unit Kodiak.
A Ground-Based Interceptor, designed to destroy incoming ICBMs, is lowered into its silo at the missile defense complex at Fort Greely, July 22, 2004.

Fort Greely is a United States Army launch site for anti-ballistic missiles located about 100 miles (160 km) southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska. It is also the home of the Cold Regions Test Center (CRTC), as Fort Greely is one of the coldest areas in Alaska, and can accommodate cold, extreme-cold, and temperate-weather tests depending on the season. It is named in honor of Major General Adolphus Greely.

There was an earlier Fort Greely on Kodiak Island.[1]

  1. ^ Stevens, Joe (April 7, 2016). "Kodiak Alaska Military History". www.kadiak.org. Kodiak Military History Museum. Retrieved July 5, 2016.[self-published source?]