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 | | With the transfer, First Army replaced Second Army and assumed nearly three times the number of reserve-component units it was previously responsible for, according to Col. Michael Parker, First Army's deputy chief of staff for training. |
 | | Today, First Army not only assists in and evaluates the training and readiness of units within its former jurisdiction -- 19 Northeastern and Midwestern states and Washington, D.C. -- but of those that were formerly under Second Army's jurisdiction; eight Southeastern states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, said First Army spokeswoman Oona Powell. |
 | | The move to Fort Meade in 1966 took the headquarters of the elite First Army to an installation that dates to 1917 when it was one of 16 cantonments built for troops drafted for World War I. During that era more than 100,000 men passed through it. |
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