Fort Gregg-Adams

Fort Gregg-Adams
eponym: Lieutenant General Arthur J. Gregg and Lieutenant Colonel Charity Adams Earley
Petersburg and Tri-cities Area
Shoulder sleeve insignia and emblems of units or agencies stationed at Fort Gregg-Adams
Fort Gregg-Adams is located in Virginia
Fort Gregg-Adams
Fort Gregg-Adams
Location in Virginia
Coordinates37°14′06″N 77°19′58″W / 37.23500°N 77.33278°W / 37.23500; -77.33278
TypeU.S. Army post
Site information
Controlled byU.S. Army
Site history
Built1917
In use1917–1924
1941–present
Garrison information
GarrisonCombined Arms Support Command (CASCOM)/Sustainment Center of Excellence (SCoE)
U.S. Army Quartermaster School
U.S. Army Ordnance School
U.S. Army Transportation School
Army Sustainment University (ALU)
Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA)

Fort Gregg-Adams, in Prince George County, Virginia, United States, is a United States Army post and headquarters of the United States Army Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM)/ Sustainment Center of Excellence (SCoE), the U.S. Army Quartermaster School, the U.S. Army Ordnance School, the U.S. Army Transportation School, the Army Sustainment University (ALU), Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA), and the U.S. Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA).

Fort Gregg-Adams also hosts two Army museums, the U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum and the U.S. Army Women's Museum. The equipment and other materiel associated with the Army's Ordnance Museum was moved to Fort Gregg-Adams in 2009–2010 for use by the United States Army Ordnance Training and Heritage Center.

The installation was initially named Camp Lee (changed to Fort Lee in 1950) after Confederate States General Robert E. Lee.[1] It was one of the U.S. Army installations named for Confederate soldiers that the U.S. Naming Commission had recommended be renamed. On August 8, 2022, the commission proposed the name be changed to Fort Gregg-Adams, after Lieutenant General Arthur J. Gregg and Lieutenant Colonel Charity Adams Earley.[2] On October 6, 2022, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin accepted the recommendation and directed the name change occur no later than January 1, 2024.[3] On January 5, 2023, William A. LaPlante, US under-secretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, directed the full implementation of the recommendations.[4] On April 27, 2023, the post was redesignated Fort Gregg-Adams.[5] It is the first U.S. military base to be named for African Americans.

Fort Gregg-Adams is a census-designated place (CDP) with a population of 9,874 as of the 2020 census – nearly triple the size of the 2010 census count.[6]

  1. ^ "Naming of U.S. Army Posts". U.S. Army Center of Military History. 7 September 2023.
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  3. ^ Lloyd Austin (6 October 2022). "Memorandum for Senior Pentagon Leadership, Defense Agency and DoD Field Activity Directors: Subject: Implementation of the Naming Commission's Recommendations" (PDF). Secretary of Defense. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
  4. ^ Pat Ryder. (5 January 2023) Transcript: Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder Holds an On-Camera Press Briefing. U.S. Department of Defense. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Census Quick Facts for Fort Gregg-Adams, VA". Retrieved 21 June 2022.