Fort Bragg, the World's Largest Post

From Henry Cuningham of the Fayetteville Observer:

Everything appears to be on track for two Army headquarters to move to Fort Bragg from Atlanta by 2011, and local civilian hiring probably will begin in 2010...

The 2005 BRAC law mandates that Forces Command and U.S. Army Reserve Command move to Fort Bragg by September 2011.

Here's the DoD site for Base Realignment and Closure 2005.

From American Forces Press Service on December 20, 2007:

"The Army’s integrated approach to stationing is complex and requires the synchronization of many efforts, including growth, BRAC, global repositioning, and force structure realignment,” said Tom McCollum, Fort Bragg's garrison public affairs officer. "When all is said and done, we should have an end strength here of more than 56,300 soldiers, which will continue to make us the Army's largest post worldwide.

"As the Army adjusts its global footprint to support accelerated growth and force structure realignment, as well as to improve readiness to meet future challenges, Fort Bragg will receive additional forces mainly in the areas of emergency ordnance disposal, signal, chemical, finance and quartermaster units," McCollum said. "Some of these units started arriving here this year."

To house and support this increase, Fort Bragg will receive $215 million in military construction funds for unit operations and maintenance facilities and barracks. In addition, $59.4 million will be provided for construction of an additional 446 homes on post for family housing.

From GlobalSecurity.org:

Fort Bragg is located just west of Fayetteville, North Carolina. One of the largest and busiest military complexes in the world, Fort Bragg hosts America's only airborne corps and airborne division, the "Green Berets" of the Special Operations Command, and the Army's largest support command. 82nd Airborne Division soldiers and others make 100,000 parachute jumps each year at Fort Bragg.

By population, Fort Bragg is the largest Army installation in the world, providing a home to almost 10 percent of the Army’s active component forces. Approximately 43,000 military and 8,000 civilian personnel work at Fort Bragg. Every day approximately military and civilian employees in careers ranging from trades and labor to engineers and attorneys provide the services needed to train, sustain, and deploy the combat forces to America's Crisis Response Contingency Corps and Special Operations Forces. Their common daily focus is on training, deploying, mobilizing, and demobilizing America’s strategic response forces and providing first-class services in such areas as retail, recreation, medicine, and education. The Fort provide those services to a customer base of more than 250,000 soldiers, civilians, family members, and retirees...

In its 2005 BRAC Recommendations, DoD recommended to realign Fort Bragg by relocating the 7th Special Forces Group (SFG) to Eglin AFB, FL, and by activating the 4th Brigade Combat Team (BCT), 82d Airborne Division and relocating European-based forces to Fort Bragg, NC.