Canadian Forces Base Gagetown - Military Installations on Waymarking.com

Initially, Camp Gagetown was the home base for many army regiments, including the Black Watch and the Royal Canadian Regiment, however defence cutbacks in the 1960s saw a gradual reduction. On February 1, 1968, the Canadian Army, the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal Canadian Navy, were merged to form the Canadian Armed Forces. Following this unification, Camp Gagetown was renamed Canadian Forces Base Gagetown (CFB Gagetown).

In the post-unification armed forces, CFB Gagetown functioned as the primary combat training centre for Force Mobile Command (renamed Land Force Command in the 1990s). In the late 1980s, CFB Gagetown began to simultaneously refer to itself as Combat Training Centre Gagetown (CTC Gagetown) and many also still refer to it as Camp Gagetown.

Increased defence spending in the 1980s saw numerous new training facilities built and ranges modernized, and this continued into the 1990s as the Canadian Forces closed obsolete bases. CFB Gagetown continues to function as the army's primary training facility, although due to risk of forest fires in recent years, live-fire training has been pushed primarily to the fall-winter-spring seasons.

Coord will place you at the Base Museum.

Era: Post WW II General Comments: http://www.army.dnd.ca/cfb_gagetown/ Related web site: [Web Link]

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