In 1947, Fort Ord became the home of the 4th Replacement Training Center. During the 1950s and 1960s, Fort Ord was a staging area for units departing for war, and at one time had 50,000 troops on the ...

Major League Baseball’s opening day is here and what better way to honor the day than to remember a famous baseball player and his time on the Central Coast. We are talking about Joe DiMaggio.With the ...

Fifty-five years have come and gone. In the spring of 1964, I was a 19-year-old basic trainee at the U.S. Army Training Center at Fort Ord. I’d embarked upon a personal mission and was convinced that ...

FORT ORD NATIONAL MONUMENT — For nearly 80 years, recruits reporting to central California’s Fort Ord considered themselves the lucky ones, privileged to live and work amid sparkling seas, sandy dunes ...