Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
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Fort Leonard Wood is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pulaski County, Missouri, United States. The population was 13,666 at the 2000 census. It is named in honor of Leonard Wood, a US Army General who was awarded the Medal of Honor. The Fort Leonard Wood Micropolitan Statistical Area in comprised of Pulaski County.
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[edit] Geography
Fort Leonard Wood is located at (37.738191, -92.117275)GR1.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 252.8 km² (97.6 mi²). 251.7 km² (97.2 mi²) of it is land and 1.1 km² (0.4 mi²) of it (0.43%) is water.
[edit] Demographics
As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there were 13,666 people, 2,639 households, and 2,335 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 54.3/km² (140.6/mi²). There were 3,151 housing units at an average density of 12.5/km² (32.4/mi²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 64.81% White, 21.59% African American, 1.10% Native American, 2.39% Asian, 0.45% Pacific Islander, 4.99% from other races, and 4.68% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 11.43% of the population.
There were 2,639 households out of which 71.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 80.0% were married couples living together, 5.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 11.5% were non-families. 7.0% of all households were made up of individuals and none had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.32 and the average family size was 3.54.
In the CDP the population was spread out with 27.8% under the age of 18, 35.0% from 18 to 24, 35.8% from 25 to 44, 1.3% from 45 to 64, and 0.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 21 years. For every 100 females there were 158.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 181.4 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $33,891, and the median income for a family was $34,354. Males had a median income of $24,732 versus $20,421 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $11,652. About 2.7% of families and 4.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.6% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.
[edit] Military base
Fort Leonard Wood is a United States Army Basic Combat Training (BCT) post located in the Missouri Ozarks. The main gate is located on the southern boundary of St. Robert. The post was created in December 1940 and named in honor of General Leonard Wood, former Chief of Staff, in January 1941. Originally planned to train infantry troops, in 1941 it became an engineer training post with the creation of the Engineer Replacement Training Center.
It is called "Fort Lost in the Woods" by soldiers due to its isolated location (120 miles SW of St. Louis and 70 miles NE of Springfield, Missouri.)
Fort Leonard Wood offers BCT for most non-combat arms soldiers; and AIT for MOS 88M (motor transport operator) and non-combat engineer MOSes and OSUT training for combat engineers and bridging engineers (MOS 12B and 12C), chemical specialists (74D) and military police (31B). All training is gender integrated as in Fort Jackson, with the exception of combat engineers (i.e. MOS 21B is closed to women). Fort Leonard Wood is considered the tougher of the two gender integrated basic training facilities due to the terrain and the extreme temperatures, which is why it is also known as "Little Korea".
For those soldiers who fail their initial physical fitness assessment, they are sent to the Fitness Training Company to get in shape. They go to the PCU (Physical Condition Unit), which is one of three platoons, the others being PTRP (Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Program), which is where soldiers who were injured in basic training and AIT go to rehabilitate and go back to training, and Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT) - Completion (APFT-C) which Soldiers who failed the APFT train to pass the APFT to graduate BCT or AIT. This is an alternative to being medically discharged.
[edit] Trivia
In Truman (film), Senator Harry Truman is shown visiting the construction site of Fort Leonard Wood during his investigation of corruption in the war effort.
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