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NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY

Various aspects of the history of the United States Army, the oldest branch of the U.S. military, are currently chronicled at multiple museums across the country. These include the United States Infantry Museum at Fort Benning, Georgia; the United States Frontier Army Museum at Fort Leaven worth, Kansas; and the United States Cavalry Museum at Fort Riley, Kansas — as well as multiple division museums. Then, of course, there’s the impressive West Point Museum at the United States Army’s Military Academy.

On November 11, 2020, after a delay due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, another institution opened at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, outside of Washington, D.C., and just miles from President George Washington’s Mount

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