International Trade in Arms and Military Training
- U.S. Training of Foreign Military Forces
- Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
- The Training Schools
- US Taxpayer Funds: Monitor the Flow
- The US Military: Who, Where and What Are They Teaching
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The Training Schools
The United States trains at least 100,000 foreign soldiers and police from more than 150 countries each year at a cost of tens of millions of dollars. Tens of thousands study in the US at the approximately 275 known military schools and installations that provide training; the US trains many more in their own nations through a variety of programs. Closure of the US Army's recently renamed School of the Americas (SOA) has been the principal focus to date of campaigners concerned about the human rights impact of US military and police training. But SOA is just the tip of the iceberg. The below map and list on the back side of this graphic represent only a partial listing of all the schools and installations in the US that provide foreign military training.
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The locations of facilities in the United States that provide training for foreign military personnel.
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US Army Command and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth, KS
The Command and General Staff College trains over 22,000 US and foreign officers annually to lead combat units. This school teaches one of the main courses taught at the infamous School of the Americas, but in English rather than Spanish. In 2000- 2001, 90 soldiers from 79 countries attended the school. Recent graduates came from Albania, Algeria, Belarus, Bosnia, Colombia, Mali, Senegal, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
US Army Intelligence Center and School, Ft. Huachuca, AZ
This school teaches the range of modern military intelligence courses, including counterintelligence, "human intelligence basic, "and "intelligence in combating terrorism." Eighty-two foreign military students attended in FY 1998, and 123 were slated to attend in 1999. The largest national contingents were from Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Mexico.
US Army JFK Special Warfare Center and School, Ft. Bragg, NC
Described in one Pentagon publication as "the Army's special operations university," Ft. Bragg is the home of the US Army Special Forces (the "Green Berets"), troops that specialize in unconventional warfare and psychological operations. These units were actively engaged in the counterinsurgency wars of the 1960s-80s, training insurgent and state affiliated paramilitary forces, and they have frequently participated in covert operations run by the intelligence community. Foreign officers from Colombia, Bahrain, Jordan, Egypt, Mexico, Philippines, Nepal, Thailand, Turkey and other countries studied at Ft. Bragg in recent years.
US Army School of the Americas, Ft. Benning, GA
For more than a decade, SOA (renamed the "Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation") has been the focus of a citizen campaign to close it down because of the widespread commission of human rights violations by former SOA students. It was revealed in 1996 that this school had used manuals that advocated execution, torture and blackmail as recently as 1991. Today SOA/ WHINSEC provides Spanish language instruction in 53 courses. About 600 soldiers from Latin American militaries attend this school annually. The SOA Watch campaign's organizing and lobbying efforts have forced the Army to increase the level of transparency around SOA's curriculum, to institutionalize human rights training, and to establish internal and external oversight mechanisms at the school.
Foreign Military Training Schools in Your Neighborhood
Alabama
US Army Ordnance, Missile and Munitions Center and School,
Redstone Arsenal, AL
US Army Aviation Center, Ft Rucker, AL
Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, AL
Ira C. Eaker College for Professional
Development, Maxwell AFB, AL
US Army Military Police School, Ft McClellan,
AL
Arizona
US Army Intelligence Center and School, Ft Huachuca, AZ
Western
Army National Guard Aviation Training Site, Marana, AZ
Marine Corps Air
Station, Yuma, AZ
California
US Army National Training Center, Ft Irwin,
CA
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA
Defense Resources Management
Institute, Monterey, CA Expeditionary Warfare Training Group, Pacific,
San Diego, CA
Helicopter Combat Support Squadron Three, Naval Air Station
North Island, San Diego, CA
Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Center
San Diego, CA
Naval Special Warfare Command, Coronado, CA
Marine Corps
Air Base, West Miramar, CA
Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, CA
Marine
Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, Bridgeport, CA
Marine Corps Air
Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, CA
Colorado
US Air Force Academy,
Colorado Springs, CO
Connecticut
Navy Submarine School, Groton, CT
Coast
Guard Academy, New London, CT
District of Columbia
National Defense University,
Ft McNair, Washington, DC
National War College, Ft McNair, Washington,
DC
Center for Hemispheric Studies, Ft McNair, Washington, DC
Florida
Air
Force Special Operations School, Hurlburt Field, FL
Commodore Training
Air Wing Five, Milton, FL
Naval Aviation Schools Command, Naval Air Station,
Pensacola, FL
Navy Technical Training Center, Corry Station, Pensacola,
FL
Georgia
US Army School of the Americas/Western Hemisphere Institute
for Security Cooperation, Ft Benning, GA
Hawaii
Navy Submarine Training
Center, Pacific, Pearl Harbor, HI Asia-Pacific Center, Honolulu, HI
Illinois
US Army Management Engineering College, Rock Island, IL
Kansas
US Army
Command and General Staff College Ft Leavenworth, KS
Kentucky
US Army
Armor School, Ft Knox, KY
Maryland
US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
Defense
Information School, Ft Meade, MD
United States Naval Test Pilot School,
Naval Air Station, Patuxent, MD
Missouri
US Army Engineer Center, Ft Leonard
Wood, MO
US Army Chemical School, Ft Leonard Wood, MO
Marine Corps Detachment,
Ft Leonard Wood, MO
Mississippi
Navy Technical Training Center, Meridian
MS 81st Training Group, Keesler AFB, MS
North Carolina
US Army JFK Special
Warfare Center and School, Ft Bragg, NC
18th Airborne Corps, Ft Bragg,
NC
Navy Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School, Camp LeJeune,
NC
New Mexico
49th Fighter Wing Training Squadron, Holloman AFB, NM
542nd
Crew Training Wing, Kirtland AFB, NM
Nevada
57th Fighter Wing, Nellis
AFB, NV
New York
US Military Academy, West Point, NY
Ohio
Defense Institute
of Security Assistance Management, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH
Oklahoma
US
Army Defense Ammunition Center, McAlester, OK
US Army Field Artillery
School, Ft Sill, OK
Pennsylvania
US Army War College, Carlisle Barracks,
PA
Eastern US Army National Guard Aviation Training Site, Annville, PA
Rhode Island
Naval War College, Newport, RI
Surface Warfare Officers School
Command, Newport, RI
South Carolina
US Army Training Center, Ft Jackson,
SC
Texas
US Army Air Defense Artillery School, Ft Bliss, TX
US Army Sergeants
Major Academy, Ft Bliss, TX
21st Cavalry Brigade (Air Combat), Ft Hood,
TX
Inter-American Air Forces Academy, Lackland AFB, TX
International Office,
82nd Airborne, Sheppard AFB, TX
12th Flying Training Wing, Randolph AFB,
TX
47th Flying Training Wing, Laughlin AFB, TX
315th Training Squadron,
Goodfellow AFB, TX
Mine Warfare Training Center, Ingleside, TX
Virginia
US Army Logistics Management College, Ft Lee, VA
US Army Aviation Logistics
School, Ft Eustis, VA
Defense Mapping School, Ft Belvoir, VA
Naval Special
Warfare Development Group, Dam Neck, VA
Joint Forces Staff College, Norfolk,
VA
Expeditionary Warfare Training Group, Atlantic, Northfolk, VA
US Marine
Corps General Command and Staff College, Quantico, VA
US Marine Corps
Scout Sniper Instruction School, Quantico, VA
Fleet Combat Training Center,
Norfolk, VA
374th Training Wing Detachment, Portsmouth, VA
Washington
9th Infantry Division, Ft Lewis, WA
Navy Undersea Warfare Center, Keyport,
WA
Sources:
AIUSA requested a list of all facilities providing training for foreign military personnel from the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the office with oversight responsibility for foreign military training, in March 2000. The office did not provide us with the requested information. Sources for the above graphic and the partial listing of schools include:
US Department of Defense and US Department of State, Foreign Military Training & DoD Engagement Activities of Interest in Fiscal Years 1998-99: Joint Report to Congress (Washington, DC: March 1999).
US Army Assistance Training Field Activity web page, http://www-satfa.Monroe.army.mil/
US Naval Education and Training Security Assistance Field Activity: US Marine Corp International Training Catalogue, available at: http://www.netsafa.navy.mil/Marine_Corps/Mapit.htm
Adam Isacson and Joy Olson, Just the Facts -1999 Edition: A Civilian's Guide to U.S. Defense and Security Assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean (Washington, DC: Latin America Working Group and Center for International Policy, 1999), pp. 168-9.
