Fort Dix was an early casualty of the first Base Realignment and Closure process in the early 1990s , losing the basic-training mission that had introduced new recruits to military life since 1917 . But Fort Dix advocates attracted Army Reserve interest in keeping the post as a training reservation . With the reserves , and millions for improvements , Fort Dix actually has grown again to employ 3,000 . As many as 15,000 troops train there on weekends , and the post has been a major mobilization point for reserve and National Guard troops since the September 11 attacks on New York City and Washington , D.C. Fort Dix has completed its realignment from an individual training center to a FORSCOM Power Projection Platform for the Northeastern United States under the command and control of the Army 's Installation Management Command . Primary missions include training and providing regional base operations support to on-post and off-post active component and U.S Army Reserve units , Soldiers , Families and Retirees . Fort Dix supported more than 1.1 million man-days of training in 1998 . A daily average of more than 13,500 persons live or work within the garrison and its tenant organizations . Devens Reserve Force Training Area , MA is a sub-installation of the ASA
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
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