Fort Lee

Fort Lee, renamed Fort Gregg-Adams in 2023 (honoring two pioneering Black officers), then reverted to Fort Lee in 2025 (now honoring Pvt. Fitz Lee, MOH, Spanish-American War — a Buffalo Soldier, not the Confederate general). Your grandmother has mailed packages to three different addresses and all of them arrived. Home of the Sustainment Center of Excellence, where Quartermasters, Ordnance, and Transportation soldiers learn that the supply system works exactly the way you think it doesn't — which is to say, barely, and with forms that were designed by someone who hates trees and loves bureaucracy. You'll order a part in October and receive it in March, and both dates will be considered 'on time.' Richmond is 25 minutes north with a food scene that has absolutely no business being this good — Carytown, the Fan District, and Scott's Addition will make the DFAC feel like the war crime it technically is. Petersburg is right there being historically significant and economically complicated. The post is modernizing fast with new barracks and facilities that almost make you forget you're learning logistics in a state where the humidity turns your uniform into a second skin. Your property book is not modernizing. It never will. It exists outside of time, like a cursed artifact.