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54-826: The district serves high school aged dependent children on Fort Huachuca . According to the National Center for Education Statistics, Sierra Vista Unified School District serves a community of 48,526 people with a Median Household Income of $ 59,450. 22.4% of the families in the Sierra Vista USD live below the poverty level. Total households in the community is 20,382. Race/Ethnicity of Sierra Vista USD: Secondary schools: Elementary schools: Fort Huachuca Pancho Villa Expedition 1916–1917 World War II [REDACTED] Major General Maria Barret – CG, NETCOM [REDACTED] Command Sergeant Major Warren Robinson – USAICoE CSM Fort Huachuca

108-529: A 140-mile-long (230 km) line of stations with heliographs connecting far-flung military posts of Fort Keogh and Fort Custer , in the Montana Territory in 1878 . The heliographs were supplied by Brig. Gen. Albert J. Myer (1828-1880), of the U.S. Army 's Signal Corps . In December 1880 , Miles was promoted to brigadier general in the Regular Army. He was then assigned to command

162-475: A criminal background check before being allowed to pass the gate. Foreign visitors must be escorted by active duty or retired military personnel. Fort Huachuca has a rich tradition in Army Signal and is currently home to NETCOM whose mission is to plan, engineer, install, integrate, protect, defend and operate army cyberspace , enabling mission command through all phases of operations. It used to be home to

216-519: A section of the Berlin Wall . The museum's emphasis is on U.S. Army military intelligence history and includes displays of the organizational development of army intelligence. There is a small military intelligence gift shop with customized Fort Huachuca souvenirs. All visitors, military or civilian, are welcome at the Ft. Huachuca Museum free of charge. Civilian visitors without a DoD ID card must pass

270-825: A subordinate command to United States Army Cyber Command from a direct reporting unit to the Headquarters, Department of the Army CIO/G6. Fort Huachuca was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976 for its role in ending the Apache Wars , the last major military actions against Native Americans, and as the site of the Buffalo Soldiers. Fort Huachuca maintains a cemetery known as the Fort Huachuca Post Cemetery. Some 3,800 veterans and family members are buried there. In 1980,

324-514: A surrender of the war chief at a subsequent meeting arranged and held with General Miles, under the terms of which Geronimo and his few remaining followers agreed to temporarily spend two years in exile on a Florida reservation far to the east. Geronimo agreed on these terms, being unaware of the real plot behind the negotiations (that there was no real intent to let them go back to their native lands in Arizona and New Mexico). The exile included even

378-657: Is a United States Army installation , established on 3 March 1877 as Camp Huachuca. The garrison is under the command of the United States Army Installation Management Command . It is in Cochise County in southeast Arizona , approximately 15 miles (24 km) north of the border with Mexico and at the northern end of the Huachuca Mountains , adjacent to the town of Sierra Vista . From 1913 to 1933,

432-524: Is also conducted by the 111th. The 111th MI Brigade hosts the Joint Intelligence Combat Training Center at Fort Huachuca. Fort Huachuca Accommodation Schools is the school district for dependent children living on the base. The schools are: Colonel Johnston Elementary School (K–2), General Myer Elementary School (3–5), and Colonel Smith Middle School (6–8). The zoned high school is Buena High School , operated by

486-442: The 11th Signal Brigade . The 11th Signal Brigade has the mission of rapidly deploying worldwide to provide and protect command, control, communications, and computer support for commanders. They were deployed to provide signal operations during the 2003 invasion of Iraq . On 7 June 2013, the unit moved to Fort Hood , Texas. The Army Electronic Proving Ground (USAEPG), a forerunner in the research and development of defense technology,

540-482: The 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR) conducted aircraft training exercises from Fort Huachuca in preparation for Operation Honey Badger . This operation aimed to rescue captive American personnel in Iran . It was developed in the wake of Operation Eagle Claw 's failure. The environment near the fort enabled 160th SOAR pilots to train and simulate flying in the mountainous desert terrain of Iran. The fort

594-490: The 25th Infantry Regiment replaced the 10th Cavalry at the fort. With the build-up during World War II, the fort had an area of 71,253 acres (288.35 km ), with quarters for 1,251 officers and 24,437 enlisted soldiers. The 92nd and 93rd Infantry Divisions , composed of African-American troops, trained at Huachuca. In 1947, the post was closed and turned over to the Arizona Game and Fish Department . However, at

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648-515: The 5th U.S. Infantry Regiment , a position he held for 11 years until 1880. Miles played a leading role in nearly all of the U.S. Army 's campaigns of the later American Indian Wars against the native American Indian tribes of the Great Plains , of the Mid-West , among whom he was known as "Bearcoat" (for his characteristic bearskin fur coat). In 1874–1875, he was a field commander in

702-524: The 6th Cavalry and chose a site at the base of the Huachuca Mountains that provided sheltering hills and a perennial stream. In 1882, Camp Huachuca was redesignated a fort. General Nelson A. Miles commanded Fort Huachuca as his headquarters in his campaign against Geronimo in 1886. After the surrender of Geronimo in 1886, the Apache threat was extinguished, but the army continued to operate Fort Huachuca because of its strategic border position. In 1913,

756-730: The Army Security Agency Test and Evaluation Center in 1960, the Combat Surveillance and Target Acquisition Training Command in 1964, and the Electronic Warfare School in 1966. Also in 1966 the U.S. Army established the 1st Combat Support Training Brigade, whose mission was to train soldiers in the specialties of field wire and communication, telegraph communications (O5B wired and wireless) , light tactical vehicle driving, wheeled vehicle maintenance, and food service and administration due to

810-515: The Lakota Sioux tribe under chiefs Sitting Bull (c.1831/1837-1890), and Crazy Horse (c.1840-1877), and their native allies onto designated federal Indian reservations . A year later in the winter of 1877 , he drove his bluecoat mounted troops on a forced march across the eastern Montana Territory to intercept and stop the Nez Perce tribal band led by Chief Joseph (1840-1904), after

864-605: The Nez Perce War , heading north to cross the border into British Canada . For the rest of his career, General Miles would quarrel with General Oliver O. Howard (1830-1909), who also led the pursuing expedition over taking credit for Chief Joseph's capture. Later while on the Yellowstone River , he developed expertise with the use of the heliograph for sending long-distance communications signals utilizing ancient principles of sunlight and mirrors, establishing

918-692: The Sierra Vista Unified School District , in Sierra Vista . People who have served or lived at Fort Huachuca: Nelson A. Miles Nelson Appleton Miles (August 8, 1839 – May 15, 1925) was a United States Army officer who served in the American Civil War (1861-1865), the later American Indian Wars (1840-1890), and the Spanish–American War , (1898). From 1895 to 1903, Miles served as

972-546: The Southwest . General Crook had relied heavily on Apache scouts in his efforts to capture Geronimo. Instead, Miles relied instead on white regular cavalry troops, who eventually traveled 3,000 miles (4,800 km) without success as they tracked Geronimo through the tortuous Sierra Madre Mountains of neighboring northern Mexico . Finally, young First Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood (1853-1896), who had studied Apache culture and ways, succeeded in meeting with and negotiating

1026-656: The Union League Club of New York , where his portrait hung in the main bar area for many years. Miles City, Montana is named in his honor, as is Miles Street and the Miles Neighborhood in Tucson, Arizona . Miles Canyon on the Yukon River near Whitehorse , Yukon , was named after him in 1883 by Lt. Frederick Schwatka during his exploration of the river system. A steamship , General Miles ,

1080-673: The Warrant Officer Basic and Advanced Courses are taught on the installation. The Army's MI branch also held the responsibility for unmanned aerial vehicles until April 2006. The program was reassigned to the Aviation branch's 1st Battalion, 210th Aviation Regiment, now 2nd Battalion, 13th Aviation Regiment . Additional training in Human Intelligence (e.g., interrogation , counterintelligence ), Imagery Intelligence , and Electronic Intelligence and analysis

1134-489: The regular army in recognition of his earlier wartime actions of 1863 at Chancellorsville. He was again brevetted, this time to the rank of major general , for his documented actions at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House in 1864. Three decades later, he received the congressional Medal of Honor on July 23, 1892, for his gallantry at Chancellorsville. He was appointed brigadier general of volunteers as of May 12, 1864, for

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1188-819: The Army a decade later, he fought for compensation payments to the Lakota Sioux survivors of the massacre. Overall however, he believed that the United States federal government should have authority over the native Indians, with the Lakota under military control. In his capacity as commander of the Department of the East from 1894 to 1895, Miles commanded the troops mobilized to put down the Pullman strike riots. He

1242-736: The Battles of the Wilderness and Battle of Spotsylvania Court House. Six months after the end of the Civil War, on October 21, 1865, he was appointed a major general of volunteers at the young age of 26. After the war, he was commandant of Fort Monroe, Virginia at the mouth of the Hampton Roads harbor and the southern end of Chesapeake Bay and the James River , where former Confederate President , Jefferson Davis (1808-1889),

1296-607: The Buffalo Soldiers and the Apache War. The Annex across the street (Old Post Theater) has outdoor displays, walkways, sitting areas, and historical statues. The second museum is The U.S. Army Intelligence Museum, in the military intelligence (MI) Library on the MI school campus (Hatfield Street – Building 62723). The museum has a collection of historical artifacts including agent radio communication gear, aerial cameras, cryptographic equipment, an Enigma Code machine , two small drones and

1350-583: The Chiricahuas Apache scouts who had worked for the army, in violation of Miles' original agreement with them. Miles denied Lt. Gatewood any credit for the negotiations and had him transferred far north to the Dakota Territory . During this campaign, Miles' special signals unit used the heliograph extensively, proving its worth in the field. The special signals unit was under the command of Captain W. A. Glassford . In 1888 , Miles became

1404-840: The Information Systems Engineering Command, the Electronic Proving Ground (USAEPG), and the Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Directorate . The fort has a radar -equipped aerostat ( Tethered Aerostat Radar System ), one of a series maintained for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) by Harris Corporation . The aerostat is northeast of Garden Canyon and supports the DEA drug interdiction mission by detecting low-flying aircraft attempting to enter

1458-798: The United States Army Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM) and the United States Army Intelligence Center . Libby Army Airfield is on post and shares its runway with Sierra Vista Municipal Airport . It was an alternate but never used landing location for the Space Shuttle . Fort Huachuca is the headquarters of Army Military Auxiliary Radio System . Other units include the Joint Interoperability Test Command ,

1512-668: The United States Army was abolished by an Act of Congress and the Army Chief of Staff system was introduced. A year later, standing as a presidential candidate at the Democratic National Convention , he received a handful of votes. The Prohibition Party was going to give him their nomination, but an hour before balloting he sent a telegram to the convention stating that he did not want the nomination which went to Silas C. Swallow instead. When

1566-529: The United States entered World War I in 1917, the 77-year-old general offered to serve, but President Woodrow Wilson turned him down. Miles died in 1925 at the age of 85 from a heart attack while attending the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Washington, D.C., with his grandchildren. First Lady Grace Coolidge was also in attendance at the circus that day, and upon arriving at

1620-810: The United States from Mexico. Fort Huachuca contains the Western Division of the Advanced Airlift Tactics Training Center which is based at the 139th Airlift Wing , Rosecrans Air National Guard Base in Saint Joseph, Missouri . The installation was founded to counter the Chiricahua Apache threat and secure the border with Mexico during the Apache Wars . On 3 March 1877, Captain Samuel Marmaduke Whitside led two companies of

1674-787: The commander of the Army's Military Division of the Pacific and the Department of California , headquartered at The Presidio in San Francisco . Two years later in April 1890 , Miles was promoted to major general in the Regular Army and became the commander of the Military Division of the Missouri . The Ghost Dance movement of the Lakota Sioux people , which started in 1889, led to the Pine Ridge Campaign of

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1728-455: The expanding need for these skills in Vietnam . In 1967, Fort Huachuca became the headquarters of the U.S. Army Strategic Communications Command, which became the U.S. Army Communications Command in 1973, and U.S. Army Information Systems Command in 1984. It is now known as NETCOM after the army dropped the 9th Signal Command (Army) designation on 1 October 2011. NETCOM was realigned in 2014 as

1782-755: The force that defeated the Kiowa , Comanche , and the Southern Cheyenne along the upper Red River of the South . Between 1876 and 1877, he participated in the campaign that scoured the Northern Plains after Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer 's (1839-1876), defeat and massacre with his entire command of the 7th U.S. Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in June 1876 and forced

1836-434: The fort became the base for the " Buffalo Soldiers ", the 10th Cavalry Regiment composed of African Americans. It served this purpose for twenty years. During General Pershing's failed Punitive Expedition of 1916–1917, he used the fort as a forward logistics and supply base. From 1916 to 1917, the base was commanded by Charles Young , the first African American to be promoted to colonel. He left for medical reasons. In 1933,

1890-452: The fort was the base for the " Buffalo Soldiers " of the 10th Cavalry Regiment . During the build-up of World War II , the fort had quarters for more than 25,000 male soldiers and hundreds of WACs . In the 2010 census, Fort Huachuca had a population of about 6,500 active duty soldiers, 7,400 military family members, and 5,000 civilian employees. Fort Huachuca has over 18,000 people on post during weekday work hours. The major tenant units are

1944-475: The island, acting as both heads of the army of occupation and administrator of civil affairs. Upon returning to the United States, Miles was a vocal critic of the Army's quartermaster general, Brigadier General Charles P. Eagan , for providing rancid canned meat to troops in the field during what was known as the Army beef scandal . He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general in 1900 based on his performance in

1998-685: The last Commanding General of the United States Army (General-in-Chief), before the office was transformed into the current Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army in 1903 . Miles was born in Westminster, Massachusetts , on his family's farm. He worked in Boston , read military history, and mastered military principles and techniques, including battle drills. He attended the Fort Wayne College (now Taylor University in Upland, Indiana ). Miles

2052-603: The military Department of the Columbia (1881–1885) in Oregon and the Washington Territory , and subsequently the Department of Missouri (1885–1886). In 1886, Miles replaced General George R. Crook (1828-1890), as commander of forces fighting against Geronimo (1829-1909), a Chiricahua Apache renegade chief / guerrilla fighter leader, in the military's Department of Arizona in the old Arizona Territory in

2106-629: The outbreak of the Korean War , a January 1951 letter from the Secretary of the Air Force to the Governor of Arizona invoked the reversion clause of a 1949 deed. On 1 February 1951 the U.S. Air Force took official possession of Fort Huachuca, making it one of the few army installations to have had an existence as an air base . The army retook possession of the base a month later and reopened

2160-558: The post in May 1951 to train engineers in airfield construction as part of the Korean War build up. The engineers built today's Libby Army Airfield . On 1 May 1953, after the Korean War, the post was again placed on inactive status with only a caretaker detachment . On 1 February 1954, Huachuca was reactivated after a seven-month shut-down following the Korean War. It was the beginning of a new era for this one-time cavalry outpost, which saw Huachuca focused on electronic warfare . The army's Electronic Proving Ground opened in 1954, followed by

2214-443: The showgrounds the general told circus owner John Ringling that he never missed a circus. Nelson was one of the last surviving general officers who served during the Civil War on either side. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery in the Miles Mausoleum. It is one of only two mausoleums within the confines of the cemetery. George Burroughs Torrey painted his portrait. Rank and Organization: Citation: General Miles

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2268-592: The so-called Ghost Dance War and General Miles being brought back into the field. During the campaign, he commanded U.S. Army troops stationed near the several federal Indian reservations in the new state of South Dakota and hoped that Lakota chief Sitting Bull could be peacefully removed from the Standing Rock Indian Reservation . However, on December 15, 1890, Chief Sitting Bull was killed by Indian agency police attempting to arrest him, and 14 days later on December 29th, American cavalry troops surrounded and massacred hundreds of Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee . Miles

2322-419: The use of torture was widespread and was undertaken with the knowledge of some senior officers. To show that he was still physically able to command, on July 14, 1903, less than a month before his 64th birthday, General Miles rode the 90 miles from Fort Sill to Fort Reno , Oklahoma, in eight hours' riding time (10 hrs 20 mins total), in temperatures between 90 and 100 °F (32 and 38 °C). The distance

2376-413: The war. Miles was an opponent of the Philippine–American War and supported an inquiry into the brutality of American troops in the Philippines. In response, President Roosevelt called Miles a hypocrite and reminded him of his complicity in the Wounded Knee massacre. Miles would release his own report on US atrocities in the Philippines to the public. He condemned the use of concentration camps and said that

2430-404: Was a member of several hereditary and military societies, including the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS), serving as Commander-in-Chief from 1919 to 1925, the Grand Army of the Republic , Sons of the American Revolution and the Military Order of Foreign Wars . He was also an honorary member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati . He was also a member of

2484-527: Was conducted at Ft. Huachuca for several decades. The software-defined radios, Wideband Networking Waveform, and the Soldier Radio Waveform, were tested at USAEPG in 2014 for a network integration evaluation, NIE 15.2, at Fort Bliss , in 2015. In addition to the US Army Intelligence Center, Fort Huachuca is the home of the 111th Military Intelligence Brigade, which conducts MI training for the armed services. The Military Intelligence Officer Basic Leadership Course, Military Intelligence Captain's Career Course, and

2538-424: Was covered on a relay of horses stationed at 10-mile intervals; the first 30 miles were covered in 2 hours, 25 minutes. This was the longest horseback ride ever made by a commanding general of the army. Called a "brave peacock" by President Theodore Roosevelt , Miles nevertheless retired from the army in 1903 upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 64. Upon his retirement, the office of Commanding General of

2592-852: Was held prisoner. During his tenure at Fortress Monroe, General Miles was forced to defend himself against charges that Davis was being mistreated. Fifteen months after the end of the war, in July 1866, Miles was appointed a colonel in the Regular Army, confirmed by the U.S. Senate . The next year, in April 1867, he was appointed assistant commissioner of the North Carolina branch of the United States War Department 's Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, ( Freedmen's Bureau ), serving under Bureau Commissioner, Brigadier General Oliver O. Howard (1830-1909). On June 30, 1868, he married Mary Hoyt Sherman (daughter of Charles Taylor Sherman , niece of fellow Union Army General William T. Sherman and U.S. Senator John Sherman , and granddaughter of Charles R. Sherman ). In March 1869, he became commander of

2646-412: Was likely named for him. Nelson M. Holderman , himself a Medal of Honor recipient, was also named after Miles. Fort Miles at Cape Henlopen near Lewes, Delaware, was named for Miles on 3 June, 1941. Miles' legacy as an Indian fighter has seen him portrayed by Kevin Tighe in the film Geronimo: An American Legend , by Hugh O'Brian in the film Gunsmoke: The Last Apache , and by Shaun Johnston in

2700-415: Was named Commanding General of the United States Army in 1895, a post he held during the Spanish–American War . Miles commanded forces at Cuban sites such as Siboney . After the surrender of Santiago de Cuba by the Spaniards, he led the invasion of Puerto Rico , landing in Guánica in what is known as the Puerto Rican Campaign . He served as the first head of the military government established on

2754-428: Was not directly involved in the tragic massacre, and was critical of the Army's commanding officer of the reconstituted / reorganized and ill-fated 7th U.S. Cavalry Regiment in the field, Colonel James W. Forsyth (1833-1906). Just two days after the massacre, Miles wrote to his wife, describing it as "the most abominable criminal military blunder and a horrible massacre of women and children". After his retirement from

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2808-416: Was promoted to the rank of colonel after the Battle of Antietam of September 1862. Other battles he participated in include Fredericksburg , Chancellorsville (during which he was shot in the neck and abdomen), the Overland Campaign , and the final Appomattox Campaign , and Wounded four times in battle. Following the war, two years later, on March 2, 1867, Miles was brevetted a brigadier general in

2862-416: Was the site of the 2007 Conseil International du Sport Militaire . Fort Huachuca has two museums in three buildings on post. The Ft. Huachuca Museum occupies two buildings on Old Post, its main museum and gift shop (Building 41401), and a nearby spillover gallery called the Museum Annex (building 41305). It tells the story of Fort Huachuca and the U.S. Army in the American Southwest, with special emphasis on

2916-448: Was working as a crockery store clerk in Boston when the American Civil War (1861-1865) began. He joined the Union Army / United States Army as a volunteer soldier on September 9, 1861, and fought in many crucial battles in the Eastern Theatre . He became a lieutenant in the 22nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and was commissioned a lieutenant colonel of the 61st New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment on May 31, 1862. He

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