On June 10, 2025, our installation was redesignated Fort Hood in honor of Col. Robert B. Hood, for his extraordinary heroism during World War I.

Amid intense shelling near Thiaucourt, France, then-Capt. Hood directed artillery fire under enfilading machine-gun fire. After his gun crew was lost to enemy fire, he rapidly reorganized and returned fire within minutes, restoring combat capability.

 

The post was one of nine U.S. Army installations being redesignated based on the Naming Commission’s recommendations to remove the names, symbols, displays, monuments and paraphernalia that honor or commemorate the Confederate States of America.

 

 

Set in more than 340 square miles of Central Texas and with the best and most expansive training facilities to be found anywhere in the U.S. Army, Fort Hood is the home of III Armored Corps Headquarters, 1st Cavalry Division, 1st Army Division West, 13th Armored Corps Sustainment Command and other separate brigades, tenant units and organizations – in total more than 34,500 soldiers and airmen and an additional 48,500 family members.

 

In addition to its active-duty role, Fort Hood mobilizes, trains, deploys and demobilizes 24,000 Reserve and Nation Guard Soldiers annually in support of global operations. Fort Hood also distinguishes itself as the largest single local-location employer in the state of Texas – with more than 4,000 civilian employees and nearly 5,000 contractors working here and, according to the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Fort Hood's economic impact is estimated at $28.8 billion on the Texas economy (Texas Comptroller’s Memo – 2021).