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Fort Knox is also the location of the United States Army's Human Resources Command 's Timothy Maude Center of Excellence, which was named in honor of Lieutenant General Timothy Maude, the highest-ranking member of the U.S. military to die in the attacks of September 11, 2001.
The present gold holdings at the Fort Knox Gold Bullion Depository amount to approximately 147.3 million ounces worth more than 6 Trillion Dollars! Except for small samples removed to test its purity, no gold has been transferred to or from the Depository for many years.