Editing Fort Wingate (section)

===20th century===
*1907: Two troops of the [[5th Cavalry Regiment (United States)|5th Cavalry]] went from Fort Wingate to the [[Four Corners]] area after some armed Navajo. This was the last armed expedition the US Government made against the Navajo. One Navajo was killed and the rest escaped.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}
*1911: A Ft. Wingate company of cavalry went to [[Chaco Canyon]] and camped there several days to quell a possible uprising by Navajo.
*1914: During the [[Mexican Revolution|Mexican Civil War]] over 2,000 Mexican soldiers and their families took refuge at the fort.
*1918: Fort Wingate focus turned from Navajo to [[World War I]].
*1940: Fort Wingate became an [[ammunition depot]] from World War II until 1993.
*1944: Fort Wingate supplied 100 tons of [[Composition B]] high explosives to the [[Manhattan Project]] for use in the first [[Trinity test]].
*1950: [[Bureau of Indian Affairs]] was given part of the polluted land for an Indian boarding school.
*1960–67: [[Redstone (rocket)|Redstone]] and [[Pershing 1]] missiles were tested among others at Wingate.
*1971: DoD Placed Fort Wingate on reserve and re-designated as "Fort Wingate Depot Activity" or FWDA.<ref>[http://www.ftwingate.org/about.html About FWDA], n.d. retrieved 17 June 2017</ref>
*1988: the [[Base Realignment and Closure]] round 1 decided to close the Fort.
*Environmental restoration activities at FWDA began in 1989.<ref name=IAP/>{{rp|11}}
* January 1993: the [[Base Realignment and Closure Act]] (BRAC) closed the post.