America’s Army at Fort Hood, over the last year, has completed restructuring its assigned forces including the 1^st Cavalry Division, 4^th Infantry Division and the 13^th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary). Only the Headquarters, III Armored Corps remains to be restructured into the Modular Design and this will be accomplished once the Corps returns from serving as the Multi-National Corps-Iraq.

With over 52,000 Soldiers and an annual budget (payroll, operations, maintenance and construction) of more than $3B, Fort Hood remains one of our nation’s most important and most heavily committed military installations. No installation in the nation has had, or now has, more members deployed in support of the Global War on Terrorism. As the national command authority rotates combat forces into and out of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, virtually every Fort Hood major unit has been in the fight at least twice and some now on a third or fourth one year tour.

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Since September 11, 2001, Fort Hood has mobilized, trained and deployed more than 31,500 reserve component Soldiers in six separate Brigade Combat Teams (BCT) and over 100 company-sized units.  The combined value of Fort Hood’s infrastructure, power projection capabilities, state of the art training facilities and supportive surrounding civilian population provides the nation with enormous flexibility as it transforms our military into more adaptive, networked, full spectrum formations ideally suited to execute today’s and tomorrow’s joint and expeditionary campaigns.  Fort Hood’s role as the Army’s premier mobilization and training base will remain firm.

The 2005 BRAC ranked Fort Hood as #1 among the Army’s 97 installations in terms of “Future” capability.  Since then, that judgment has been confirmed most recently with the Army’s decision to re-designate Fort Hood’s Carl R. Darnall Army Community Hospital as an Army Medical Center, and to mobilize and train a Brigade Combat Team for the Army’s 1^st Infantry Division at Fort Hood.  This BCT is scheduled to deploy for combat in FY08.

On a per capita basis, soldier training at Fort Hood continues to be more economically accomplished than at any other major US Army installation. The Army has consistently recognized the unique ability of Fort Hood and Central Texas to house, support and sustain 50,000 soldiers and their families in whatever formations today's and tomorrow's forces will find themselves.

Fort Hood is very heavily committed, and is  proud of the successes achieved in stabilizing, assuring and growing the installation and the region.

Fort Hood is the economic engine that drives much of North Central Texas. More than 300,000 individuals can proudly claim Fort Hood as “home.” This includes 52,000 Soldiers and their families, 250,000 military retirees and their families, and 10,000 or more service or contractor personnel.

The ability to deploy on short notice and in massive numbers remains an essential, proven Fort Hood capability. Using facilities at Beaumont and Corpus Christi, Fort Hood again in 2006 earned the Army’s Deployment Excellence Award.  State and federal support aimed at expanding and improving port capacity at both locations remains a vital rapid deployment concern. Though transportation infrastructure and associated mobility issues continue to represent a major challenge, the state has dramatically reduced these concerns with its commitment of $20.5M in TXDOT funding for on-post access funding, and $350M for other region-wide efforts.

• An Upper Level & Graduate Studies University on 662 Acres of Fort Hood, to be called Texas A&M University – Central Texas. 
• A full service federal Medical Center via a public/private partnership with Texas A&M Health Sciences, the Veterans Administration and Private Health Care Providers, to be known as the Ft. Hood Federal Regional Medical Center.
• A 2^nd Runway at Fort Hood’s Robert Gray Army Airfield to allow for and encourage expansion of the civilian market and military training.