Fort Chaffee Maneuver Training Center

In 1995 the Defense Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission recommended the permanent closure of Fort Chaffee, AR, and the installation was closed in September 1997.

The recommendation was approved with the condition that minimum essential ranges, facilities and training areas are maintained as a Reserve Component Training enclave. In late 1995, the federal government declared approximately 6,000 of Fort Chaffee’s 72,000 acres to be surplus. The remaining 66,000 were turned over to the Arkansas Army National Guard training facility in October 1997.

Use and redevelopment of the 6,000 surplus acres is left to the discretion of local community citizens and leaders. (Source:  globalsecurity.org/military/facility/fort-chaffee.htm)