Oct 14, 2022
Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, 1957
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Germany
seen from Italy
seen from Malaysia
seen from Russia
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from China
seen from Saudi Arabia
seen from Türkiye
seen from Vietnam
seen from Türkiye
seen from Australia
seen from United States
Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, 1957
Most folks hated the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, I was right at home being from Nevada. I really hated Joint Maneuver Training Center Fort Chaffee and Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk. FUCKING CHIGERS (Berry Bugs) WOULD EAT YOU TO THE BONE.
Artist : DABSMYLA
Fort Smith, Arkansas.
DABSMYLA / ARkanvas / JustKids
Zane Cash Photography 2020
Instagram : @zanecashphotography
Fort Chaffee Arkansas
Fort Chaffee is a military training facility established in 1941 as part of the plan to double the U.S army in size in preparation for the events of world war 2.
It was named after Major General Adna R. Chaffee Jr, who was an artillery general and decorated world war one veteran. It was originally called camp Chaffee and when it was built it took up over 15,000 acres and involved the buying of land from 712 different property owners.
The camp was renamed to a fort in 1956 as a recognition of its size and importance to the U.S military. Though it is primarily a training camp it has also double up as a prisoner of war camp and also a refugee site due to its huge amount of bulk housing.
Today the camp is still a military training facility and is ever expanding, with the addition of a data centre which is expected to provide almost 1000 jobs. The fort does sometimes hold public events such as the ghost adventures tour it holds annually where you can tour the grounds and view the most haunted spots.
Normally when a fort is haunted it would be fair to assume that the reason lies behind some kind of battle, but since fort chaffee has never seen any combat it seems an unlikely spot to be haunted.
The hauntings that happen at the fort are all thought to be from a part of its life in the 1980's when thousands of Cuban refugees were held here during the cold war. The fort was capable of housing the huge numbers all in one place and it all seemed to be going reasonably well until June 1st, 1980.
The refugees were all packed tightly into the housing units and conditions were poor and tensions ran high, and on the Sunday morning a huge riot broke out, with thousands of Cubans causing havoc over the grounds of the fort.
They ended up destroying 4 of the barracks and fighting for hours with the state police and national guard, and after the riot was over the camp was turned into a prison. Miles of razor wire were put up round the fort and 2000 heavily armed federal troops were stationed there to watch the inmates.
Though the whole fort was a prison it also had its own more secure inner prison section were hundreds of the more dangerous inmates were held. After this point violence and sexual attacks became rife and many of the inmates died from such attacks.
The tour which is held around the fort today concentrates on this inner prison section, where paranormal activity seems to be experienced on a regular basis.
There are claims of everything happening in this section from the full on apparitions of some of the past inmates, to unexplained noises and sudden temperature drops. There are also a number of the barracks which people have claimed to have been suddenly overcome with an intense sense of fear or nervousness, to the point they have had to flee the building.
(Original Caption) 3/25/58-Fort Chaffee, Arkansas: A new look for Elvis Presley as the idol of teenagers models a cut much cooler than his famous sideburns. A G.I. barber reduced the singer's plentiful hair to a close crew-cut more in style to his newest role of draftee.
At Fort Chaffee, 1958
American musician Elvis Presley as he eats breakfast the day he was conscripted into the US Army at the Fort Chaffee training installation, Fort Smith, Arkansas March 25, 1958. Eating beside him is his manager, Durch-born talent agent 'Colonel' Tom Parker.
FORT SMITH -- Fort Chaffee is being considered to house Afghan refugees.