Missions, Headquarters

Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall serves as the base support of operations for the Joint Force Headquarters – National Capital Region and U.S. Military District of Washington (JFHQ-NCR – MDW), Fort McNair, D.C. With other military installations in the Joint Operations area, JBM-HH provides support for the execution of JFH-NCR’s missions of homeland defense, defense support to civil authorities and world-class ceremonial, musical and special-event missions.

The Joint Base, headquartered at Fort Myer, provides some 150,000 active duty, reserve component and retired military personnel, Family members and civilian workforce with modern, clean, safe facilities and services, and the command climate is one that inspires innovative and progressive programs both from workforce and customer input.

While history and pageantry prevail, JBM-HH provide administrative, housing, recreation and support to active duty, reserve component, retired military and Department of Defense (DoD) civilian personnel stationed or living in the National Capital Region.

Army

What was once known as the Fort Myer Military Community, grew out of the Military District of Washington (MDW) in 1993. JBM-HH serves the U.S. Military District of Washington (MDW), Fort McNair, D.C., for mission support, and the Installation Management Command (IMCOM) for fiscal, administrative and base operations purposes. JBM-HH, along with Fort Meade, Maryland, and Fort Belvoir, Virginia, is now a part of IMCOM’s National Capital Region - District (NCR-D), activated Oct. 1, 2008.

The MDW commander is dual-hatted as the senior mission commander for JBM-HH and commander of Joint Force Headquarters National Capital Region (JFHQ-NCR).

JFHQ-NCR plans, coordinates, maintains situational awareness and as directed, employs forces for homeland defense and defense support to civil authorities in the National Capital Region joint operations area to safeguard the nation’s capital. JFHQ-NCR was born as a direct response to the events of Sept. 11, 2001.

MDW is the Army forces component and core staff element of JFHQ-NCR, a homeland defense mission that it manages as it likewise conducts world-class ceremonial, musical and special events in support of the nation’s leadership. MDW is known as ‘‘Guardian of the Nation’s Capital,” and the watchword of JFHQ-NCR is ‘‘Guardians!”

IMCOM, a single organization with six regional offices worldwide, was activated Oct. 24, 2006, to reduce bureaucracy, apply a uniform business structure to manage U.S. Army installations, sustain the environment and enhance the well-being of the military community. It consolidated three organizations: the former Installation Management Agency, the former Community and Family Support Center (now, the Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation Command) and the former Army Environmental Center (now, the Army Environmental Command).

Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, IMCOM oversees all facets of installation management: construction, barracks and Family housing, Family care, food management, environmental programs, well-being, Soldier and Family morale, welfare and recreation programs, logistics, public works and installation funding.

Marines

Headquarters Battalion, Henderson Hall, provides administrative, operational, logistical and quality of life services in support of over 2,000 Marines and civilians of Headquarters Marine Corps. Additionally, Henderson Hall serves to support all of the retired service members and Family members who live in the National Capital Region.

Some 450 Marines and civilians work in the confines of the base, and the remainder is spread throughout the Navy Annex, the Pentagon, Navy Yard, Crystal City and other dispersed locations in five counties surrounding Washington, D.C.

Demographics & Community Facts

Assigned Active Duty Military Personnel – 2,020

Attached Active Duty Military Personnel – 5,900

Civilian Workforce – 1,374

Military Family Members, Retirees – 112,000

Two Installations

* Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall – Arlington County, Virginia – 270 acres.

* Historic District – 74 acres in 182 buildings; one historic landmark (Quarters 1)

* Fort Lesley J. McNair – Southwest Washington, D.C. – 108 acres.

* Historic District – 89 acres in 66 buildings; one historic landmark (Roosevelt Hall, National War College)

* Joint Basing – Initial Operating Capability – Jan. 31, 2009; Full Operating Capability – Oct. 1, 2009. Between these two dates there has been a transition period for people, money and resources. At Full Operating Capability, the real property transfer of Henderson Hall buildings and acreage was complete. No community services were lost.

We have a history of partnering: Joint services housing since 1987; gate removed between Henderson Hall and Fort Myer in 2005; consistent force protection – 2006; JBM-HH is the first Army-led Joint Base reaching Full Operating Capability Oct. 1, 2009 under BRAC 2005, Section 146.