The story
Fort McClellan spread across the ridges at Anniston, Alabama, from 1917 to its 1999 closure — a post whose long roles included the Women's Army Corps' training centre, the Military Police School, and the Army Chemical School with its live-agent training legacy that keeps portions of the grounds under restriction and remediation today, a factual note this record states plainly; tens of thousands soldiered here across the world wars and after, and closure passed the cantonment to mixed reuse — homes, offices, the Alabama National Guard's enclave — while wooded ranges wait behind fences. Its telling is garrison-classic, gathered from residents and workers in the reused quarters: formation footsteps on the old parade grounds at dawn and dusk, cadence and bugle notes on the wind, figures in uniform at the barracks rows and the WAC quadrangle, lights in closed buildings — undocumented, service-flavoured, the post's generations remembered with respect. Access means the public, legal areas of the redeveloped post only. Present Fort McClellan as layered service heritage — WACs, MPs, chemical soldiers — its parade-ground echoes the garrison that never quite dismissed.