5 Facts About Fort Drum

1. Fort Drum, known as "the concrete battleship", is a heavily fortified island situated at the mouth of Manila Bay in the Philippines, due south of Corregidor Island.

2. Fort Drum is made up of 107,265 acres with both on-post and off-post jobs and housing.

3. Fort Drum is currently being looked at as the location of a proposed Eastern United States missile defense site.

4. Portion of the present Fort Drum was purchased for use as a military training site since 1908, when it was named Pine Camp.

5. Fort Drum is a US Army military reservation and a census-designated place in Jefferson County, New York, United States.