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This article is about the United States Army post. For other uses, see Fort Knox (disambiguation) . Fort Knox is a United States Army post in Kentucky south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown. The 109,000 acre (170 sq mi, 441 kmÂ²) base covers parts of Bullitt, Hardin, and Meade counties.
It is the current home of the United States Army Signal Corps and Cyber Center of Excellence and was once the home of The Provost Marshal General School (Military Police). The fort is located in Augusta, Georgia.The main component of the post is the Advanced Individual Training for Signal Corps military occupational specialities. In 1966â68 the Army's Signal Officer Candidate School (located at Fort Monmouth during World War II and the Korean War) graduated over 2,200 Signal officers.t was named Camp Gordon in honor of John Brown Gordon, who was a major general in the Confederate army, a Georgia governor, a U.S. senator, and a businessman. The camp opened in July 1917, becoming a training site and home of the famous 82nd Airborne Division.