Welcome to Fort Lee - The Home of Logistics
Whether you're visit is temporary or long-term, we hope you'll enjoy all of the things our installation and the local area have to offer.
Fort Lee is situated alongside the tri-cities of Virginia – Petersburg, Colonial Heights and Hopewell. It shares many similarities with its neighbors. In addition to its primary mission of training sustainment Soldiers, Fort Lee is a community, a workplace and a home to hundreds of military families.
Not long ago, Fort Lee was designated to become the Army Sustainment Center of Excellence – a focused training base for military supply, subsistence, maintenance, munitions, transportation and more. That decision sparked a massive base modernization mission with a budget of more than $1.2 billion. In addition to new training facilities, administrative areas, dining facilities and barracks, Fort Lee has experienced phenomenal growth among its support facilities for military families.
Fort Lee has witnessed a massive population increase as well. Much of that is due to the realignment of military organizations from other parts of the nation. In addition to the Combined Arms Support Command, Sustainment Center of Excellence Headquarters, Team Lee now consists of the Army Logistics University, the U.S. Army Quartermaster School, the U.S. Army Ordnance School and the U.S. Army Transportation School.
The tenants of the installation include headquarters elements of the Defense Commissary Agency, Kenner Army Health Clinic, a Military Entrance Processing Station and the 49th Quartermaster Group, a U.S. Army Forces Command organization that has the only two active-duty mortuary affairs and the only active-duty petroleum and water group headquarters in the Army inventory.
By the end of 2011, Fort Lee's daily population is expected to exceed 45,000 and as many as 70,000 troops will pass through its classrooms each year, making it the third largest training site in the Army. These are the most significant statistics of all ... Fort Lee fully recognizes its tremendous responsibility and the privilege to provide the most comprehensive training and quality of life services possible for the members of the military family who will pass through its gates.
On a final note, the installation command team asks all Fort Lee visitors to exercise caution as they travel throughout post. Slow down, especially around marching troop formations, construction sites and housing areas.
Fort Lee welcomes you. We hope you will find your visit, your training or your assignment rewarding. We're proud to say you're a member of "Team Lee."
The U.S. Army Garrison, Fort Lee Command Team
Col. Rodney D. Edge, Commander
Melissa Magowan, Deputy to the Commander
Command Sgt. Maj. June E. Seay, Command Sergeant Major
