WG Williams Camp , commonly known as Camp Williams , also known as Army Garrison Camp Williams , is a National Guard training site operated by National Utah Keeping. Located south of Bluffdale, west of Lehi, and north of Saratoga Springs and Cedar Fort, about 25 miles (40 km) south of Salt Lake City, across the border between Salt Lake County and Utah County in the western Traverse Mountains. Camp Williams is also home to the Non-commissioned Officer Leaders Course, taught to Active components, National Guard and Reserve.
Camp Williams grounds comprise about 6 square miles (16 km 2 ) of flat terrain and 47 square miles (120 km 2 ) of the mountainous terrain.
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History
The National Guard of the Utah Army traced its beginnings to the Utah District Militia, known as Legion Nauvoo. The Nauvoo Legion operates similarly to militia in other states and territories, including requiring adult men - between the ages of 18 and 45 - to serve. The militia served as guardians of the Central Overland Route, and in the Utah War, the Black Hawk War, and the Walker War. During this period, various legion units have camps and annual training camps, with Lehi units often doing so near the current Camp Williams location. During the power struggle between the United States federal government and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, militia was abolished in the Edmunds-Tucker Act of 1887.
In March 1894, various conflicts were over, and the Utah State Legislature authorized Caleb Walton West, the Governor, to form the Utah National Guard. Twenty years later, in 1914 and 1915, US President Woodrow Wilson set aside 18,700 hectares to provide a permanent training ground for guards. This is the first official land appointment to be made up of Camp Williams. This native land forms the western majority of its current location, which is rough and rough, and has no flat land for the canton area (headquarters and camps). So the State of Utah rented a more flat land nearby, and then bought it to build a cantonment area. Permanent use of the area, including buildings, was not established at this time, due to World War I, and the site was only occasionally used until the 1920s. In 1926 and 1927, the annual camp guard was held at the site, and in 1928 the camp was officially established for permanent use as Camp W.G. Williams. It was named after Brigadier General William Gray Williams in recognition of his war participation since the Spanish-American War and his work in building the site as a permanent training site.
Machine Gun Fire
On September 19, 2010, the fire was immediate. Training of 50-caliber machine guns in the camp triggered "Firearm Machine" which resulted in more than 3,500 acres burned and the loss of three houses in the town of Herriman to the north.
Utah Data Center
From 2011 to 2013, the National Security Agency (NSA) built a $ 1.5 billion Data Center for Cybersecurity National Comprehensive Community Initiative at Camp Williams, the first in a series of data centers needed for the Cybersecurity Initiative National Comprehensive. The 1,500,000 square foot facility (140,000 m 2 ) is built on an area of ​​200 acres (81 acres) where the former Camp Williams airbase is located on the west side of Utah Highway 68. It is rumored to be capable of storing 1 yottabyte data by 2015, although this figure remains highly speculative. The facility will use 65 megawatts of electricity and will cost $ 2 billion for hardware, software, and maintenance.
This facility will greatly enhance the NSA's ability to store and process millions of email, IM, SMS, and phone calls made daily by people around the world and in the United States.
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See also
- List of military installations in Utah
- Camp Williams House House/Officers Club, listed on National Historic Site List
References
External links
- Official Site
- GlobalSecurity.org article
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