Fort Wolters was a United States military installation

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 four miles northeast of Mineral Wells

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, Texas

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. Originally named Camp Wolters, it was an Army

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 camp from 1925 to 1946. During World War II

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, it was for a time the largest infantry replacement training center in the United States. After the war, the camp was deactivated for a several years. It became an Air Force

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 base

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 in 1951 with the mission of training Air Force engineers.

In 1956, it reverted to the United States Army to house the United States Army Primary Helicopter School; it was designated a "permanent" military base and renamed Fort Wolters in 1963.

The base was deactivated in 1973, and the site is now used as an industrial park, a Texas Army National Guard

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 training center and summer camp, and hosts a branch of Weatherford College

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