When the United States took over, it grew into one of the biggest military centers in the ... wants to know how so many military bases came to be in the San Francisco Bay Area at one time. And why ...

The military base was built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in ... By 1967, it was abandoned by the US government and slowly became buried almost 100 feet below the surface with ...

During the Cold War, the U.S. built a military base under the ice in Greenland, hidden from the Soviets. It was eventually abandoned, but its most lasting legacy is a pivotal role in climate science.

If you live in the Bay Area — or even just visited — chances are you’ve set foot on a former military base. Most people know ...

Back in 1959, the Army Corp of Engineers carved its own Echo Base into the Greenland ice as a testbed for launching nuclear missiles from Arctic locations. The base was abandoned in 1967 ...

The United States formally left the Manta military base in Ecuador on Friday at 9.00 a.m. local time, at a ceremony in which Ecuadorian authorities took full control of the Pacific Coast facilities.

Despite recently closing hundreds of bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States still maintains nearly 800 military bases in more than 70 countries and territories abroad—from giant ...