Welcome
to Fort Story, located on the lower Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic
Ocean in southeast Virginia. Fort Story is a sub-installation
of Fort Eustis, home of the U.S. Army's Transportation Corps.
Together, Fort Story and Fort Eustis provide the U.S. Army's
unique training specializing in land and sea transportation.
Fort Story is located at the entrance of the Chesapeake Bay
within the city of Virginia Beach. It is the Army's only
training facility for logistics-over-the-shore operations to
train troops on amphibious equipment and to practice the
transfer of military cargo from ship to shore. Fort Story
offers the unique combination of features including dunes,
beaches, sand, surf, deep-water anchorage, variable tide
conditions, maritime forest and open land. These unique coastal
natural resource features offer unique training opportunities to
a variety of military units representing the U.S. Army, in
addition to the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard..
Fort
Story has a considerable amount of land mass in acres of sandy
trails, cypress swamps, grassy dunes and soft and hard sand
beaches. The beaches are wide, gently sloped and washed by the
waters of the Chesapeake Bay on one side, and get pounded by the
surf of the Atlantic Ocean on the other. There are two main
uses of the jurisdictional areas at Fort Story. The first is
used for cantonment. The remaining use is for open operational
purposes, including use for outdoor training areas. The outdoor
training areas include beaches, maritime forest and open areas
for a variety of military training needs. |