U.S. ARMY GARRISON

The U.S. Army Garrison manages the multitude of functions and services that keep the 73,000-acre installation operating so that other organizations on post may concentrate on their primary missions.

Headquarters provides support to the Garrison and exercises battalion-level command over three companies, the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, the 18th Military Police Detachment, and the 36th Army Band.

As a city unto itself, the Garrison provides support to Fort Huachuca just as any city government supports its community. For instance, the Garrison provides such services as military and civilian personnel, legal, inspector general, logistical, facilities engineering, fire and safety, intelligence and security, housing, public affairs, resource management, internal audit compliance review and crime prevention/law enforcement. The Garrison also maintains community facilities and provides necessary services for religious, health, welfare and entertainment activities. The Garrison is responsible for maintaining Fort Huachuca's quality of life.

Because Fort Huachuca is the largest and primary Army installation in Arizona, the Garrison supports the Army Reserve and Army National Guard, as well as a number of other military activities throughout the state.

U.S. ARMY INTELLIGENCE CENTER

In modern warfare, the force that has the fastest, most accurate intelligence will be the victor. The sophistication of today's combat systems will mean almost certain destruction or neutralization of any element that can be located on the battlefield. In this environment, it is essential that the United States is able to find and identify enemy forces and determine their intentions and capabilities quickly and precisely, while denying the enemy similar information. The Army must have the best possible intelligence system.

Providing this system is the mission of the Intelligence Center. With its subordinate elements, it is the originator of the Army's military intelligence structure, the source of all its trained manpower, and the developer and tester of its systems and equipment. The Center is the focal point of the Army's effort to meet its present and future intelligence collection and processing requirements.

Fort Huachuca became the home of Army Intelligence in 1971 when the Intelligence School moved from Fort Holabird, Md. Since its inception in 1955, the school's mission has been to train selected personnel and to perform intelligence and security duties in the fields of imagery, interrogation, counterintelligence, area studies and combat intelligence. In 1973, the Intelligence School combined with the combat surveillance portion of the Combat Surveillance/Electronic Warfare School and the U.S. Army Combat Developments Command Intelligence Agency. They formed the first true U.S. Army Intelligence Center and School.

This amalgamation added combat surveillance aspects to the school's academic instruction and gave the Center an expanded combat and training development role. On July 1, 1987, the 25th anniversary of the Military Intelligence branch, the MI Corps was activated as part of the U.S. Regimental System at Fort Huachuca.