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Fort Kobbe
A 5,196-acre army base on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal, Fort Kobbe hosted three units of U.S. Army South (USARSO), the army component of the U.S. Southern Command. These were the U.S. Army’s 536th Engineer Combat Battalion (Heavy), the 228th Aviation Regiment, and the 87th Infantry.1 Fort Kobbe included 264 housing units and dormitories for over 1,000, as well as a school and warehouses. It is to be handed over to Panama in late 1999.2

The 228th Aviation Regiment at Fort Kobbe accounted for most of USARSO’s aviation assets. Many of these assets, including a command and control element, CH-47 “Chinook” helicopters, and UH-60 “Blackhawk” and “Medevac” helicopters, have been moved to the Soto Cano Air Base in Honduras, where the U.S. military maintains a semi-permanent presence.3 

Sources:

1 United States Southern Command Headquarters, Fact Sheet: U.S. Military in Panama Now, (Panama: January 31, 1997).

2 Description of the Military Bases in the Interoceanic Region, Panama, Inter-Oceanic Region Authority (ARI), April 1998 <http://www.ari-panama.com/ari-ing9.htm>.

3 United States, Southern Command, "Theater Laydown Detailed Look," Draft slideshow document, October 28, 1998.

Fort Kobbe

 

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