FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (June 13, 2025) — More than 6,000 service members on Fort Leonard Wood participated in a 3-mile division-style run this morning to celebrate the Army’s 250th birthday. Fort Leonard Wood celebrated the Army’s 250th birthday all week with several events that included:

 

• a 250-mile relay-style run that started June 9 and ended with the division-style run today, June 13;
• a veterans streamer ceremony that took place June 11 on Gammon Field that honored veterans from the Korean War, Vietnam War, Desert Storm/Desert Shield and the Global War on Terror;
• a wreath laying ceremony, June 12, that featured Soldiers in period uniforms at the Capitol in Jefferson City;
• and a traditional Army cake-cutting ceremony June 12 where the longest- and shortest-tenured Army civilians on Fort Leonard Wood and the oldest and youngest Soldiers joined Fort Leonard Wood leaders in cutting the cakes.

 

B-roll from today’s run can be found at:

https://www.dvidshub.net/video/966779/fort-leonard-wood-army-birthday-run

https://www.dvidshub.net/video/966781/fort-leonard-wood-army-birthday-run

 

Photos from the streamer ceremony are at:

https://www.dvidshub.net/image/9107828/fort-leonard-wood-veterans-streamer-ceremony

https://www.dvidshub.net/image/9106814/fort-leonard-wood-celebrates-armys-250th-birthday

https://www.dvidshub.net/image/9106813/fort-leonard-wood-celebrates-armys-250th-birthday

https://www.dvidshub.net/image/9106815/fort-leonard-wood-celebrates-armys-250th-birthday

https://www.dvidshub.net/image/9106795/fort-leonard-wood-celebrates-armys-250th-birthday

https://www.dvidshub.net/image/9106747/fort-leonard-wood-celebrates-armys-250th-birthday

 

All photos from the week can be found at:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/fortleonardwood/albums/72177720326721141

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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About Fort Leonard Wood

Fort Leonard Wood is a thriving and prosperous installation that has evolved from a small basic training post more than 80 years ago to a premier Army Center of Excellence that trains nearly 80,000 military and civilians each year.

Fort Leonard Wood is home to the U.S Army Maneuver Support Center of Excellence and three U.S. Army schools: the U.S. Army Engineer School; U.S. Army Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear School; and the U.S. Army Military Police School. In addition to training engineer, CBRN and military police specialties for the Army, Fort Leonard Wood also provides gender-integrated in-processing and Basic Combat Training for new Soldiers.

Fort Leonard Wood also hosts and trains with the largest Marine Corps Detachment and Air Force Squadron on any Army installation as well as a large Navy construction detachment.

More information about Fort Leonard Wood is at: https://home.army.mil/wood/index.php/about/mission