Editing Fort Dix (section)

==Mission realignment==
Knowing that Fort Dix was on a base closure list, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) attempted to save the U.S. Army post during 1987. The USAF moved the Security Police (SP) Air Base Ground Defense school from [[Camp Bullis]], Texas, to Dix in fall 1987. Putting 50–100 SP trainees on a commercial flight from San Antonio, Texas, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, every few weeks was eventually realized to be not cost effective, so the school was later moved back to Camp Bullis.

Fort Dix was an early casualty of the first [[base realignment and closure]] process in the early 1990s, after having lost its traditional basic-training mission, but advocates attracted Army Reserve interest in keeping the {{convert|31000|acre|ha|adj=on}} post as a training reservation. With the reserves, and millions of dollars for improvements, Fort Dix has grown again to employ 3,000. As many as 15,000 troops train there on weekends, and the post has been a major mobilization point for reserve and National Guard troops since the [[September 11 attacks]] on [[New York City]] and [[Washington, D.C.]]

Fort Dix has completed its realignment from an individual training center to a [[United States Army Forces Command|FORSCOM]] Power Projection Platform for the Northeastern United States under the command and control of the Army's Installation Management Command. Primary missions include training and providing regional base operations support to on-post and off-post active component and U.S. Army Reserve units, soldiers, families, and retirees. Fort Dix supported more than 1.1 million man-days of training in 1998. More than 13,500 persons, on average, live or work within the garrison and its tenant organizations. [[Fort Devens|Devens Reserve Force Training Area]] in Massachusetts is a subinstallation of the ASA.

===2005 realignments===
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In 2005, the US Department of Defense announced that Fort Dix would be affected by a base realignment and closure. For base operations support, it became part of [[Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst]], N.J. It was the first base of its kind in the United States and is the Department of Defense's only three-service joint base.  ASA, Fort Dix occupies and supports all training across 31,000 of the joint base's 42,000 acres.