Editing Fort Myer (section)

===Fort Myer===
On February 4, 1881, the Army post containing Fort Whipple was renamed Fort Myer as an honor to [[Brigadier General]] [[Albert J. Myer]], who had commanded the newly established Signal School of Instruction for Army and Navy Officers from 1869 until he died in August 1880.<ref name=Whipple /> Since then, the post has been a [[Signal Corps (United States Army)|Signal Corps]] post, a showcase for the US Army's [[cavalry]], and, since the 1940s, home to the Army's elite ceremonial units—The [[United States Army Band]] ("Pershing's Own") and the [[3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment]] ("The Old Guard").

The [[National Weather Service]] was originated there by General Albert J. Myer in 1870.<ref>{{cite web|last=Grice, Ed.|first=Gary K.|title=THE BEGINNING OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE: THE SIGNAL YEARS (1870 - 1891) AS VIEWED BY EARLY WEATHER PIONEERS; Chapter: Evolution to the Signal Service Years (1600-1891)|url=http://www.nws.noaa.gov/pa/history/evolution.php |publisher=NOAA's National Weather Service Public Affairs Office|access-date=4 January 2014}}</ref>

Fort Myer was the site of the first flight of an aircraft at a military installation. Several exhibition flights by [[Orville Wright]] took place there in 1908. On 17 September 1908 it became the location of the first airplane fatality, as [[Lt. Thomas Selfridge]] was killed when on a demonstration flight with Orville, at an altitude of about {{convert|100|ft}}, a propeller split, sending the aircraft out of control. Selfridge suffered a concussion in the crash and later died, the first person to die in powered fixed-wing aircraft. Orville was badly injured, suffering broken ribs and a leg.<ref name="hc">{{cite book |last1=Combs |first1=Harry |title=Kill Devil Hill: Discovering the Secret of the Wright Brothers |date=1979 |publisher=TernStyle Press, Ltd. |location=Englewood |isbn=0940053020 |pages=304–311}}</ref>

[[Quarters 1 (Fort Myer)|Quarters One]] on Fort Myer, which was originally built as the garrison commander's quarters, has been the home of the [[Chief of Staff of the United States Army]] since 1908 when Major General [[J. Franklin Bell]] took up residence. It has been the home of every succeeding Chief of Staff, except for General [[John J. Pershing]].

The [[United States Navy]] established the nation's first radio telecommunications station, [[NAA (Arlington, Virginia)|NAA]], near Fort Myer in 1913. In 1915, the station's radio towers, "The Three Sisters",   transmitted to [[Paris]] the first wireless communication that crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]].<ref>(1) {{cite web|url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=134969|title=The Arlington Radio Towers|work=[[Historical Marker Database|HMdb.org:The Historical Marker Database]]|access-date=August 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019000547/https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=134969|archive-date=October 19, 2020|url-status=live}}<br />(2) {{cite book|first=Donald|last= Wilhelm|date=February 1923|chapter-url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015011441048&view=1up&seq=308|chapter=NAA|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015011441048&view=1up&seq=7|title=Radio Broadcast|volume=2|issue= 4|pages=292–296|oclc=563135669|location=[[Garden City, New York]]|publisher=[[Doubleday (publisher)#History|Doubleday, Page & Company]]|access-date=August 23, 2021|via=[[HathiTrust|Hathi Trust Digital Library]]}}</ref>

[[File:Lee Boulevard addition to Fort Myer Reservation LOC 89692768.jpg|thumb|200px|Lee Boulevard addition to Fort Myer Reservation in 1929]]
During [[World War I]], Fort Myer was a staging area for a large number of [[engineering]], [[artillery]], and [[chemical]] companies and regiments. The area of Fort Myer now occupied by Andrew Rader Health Clinic and the [[Commissary]] were made into a trench-system training grounds where French officers taught the Americans about trench warfare.

General [[George S. Patton]] Jr., who was posted at Fort Myer four different times, started the charitable "Society Circus" after World War I.<ref>{{cite news|last=Michael|first=John|title=Society Circus on Fort Myer Virginia Between Wars|url=https://historic-fortmyer.com/index.php/2011/04/20/fort-myer-and-the-society-circus/|work=Images of America: Fort Myer|publisher=historic-fortmyer.com|access-date=5 June 2013|location=Ft. Myer, VA|date=20 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120502112448/http://www.historic-fortmyer.com/2011/04/20/fort-myer-and-the-society-circus/|archive-date=2 May 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> He ultimately was post commander and commanded the 3rd Cavalry Regiment that was stationed at Fort Myer from the 1920s to 1942 when the regiment was sent to Georgia to get mechanized.<ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141115225416/http://www.usafa.edu/df/dfh/docs/Harmon14.pdf|archive-date=2014-11-15|url=http://www.usafa.edu/df/dfh/docs/Harmon14.pdf|title=The Many Faces of George S. Patton, Jr.|work=USAFA Harmon Memorial Lecture #14|first=Martin|last=Blumenson|year=1971|publisher=[[United States Air Force Academy]]|location=[[Colorado Springs, Colorado]]}}</ref>

In late 2001, troops, deployed in response to the [[September 11th attacks]], were bivouacked at Fort Myer. These troops were under [[Operation Noble Eagle]].<ref>[[Operation Noble Eagle]]</ref> These included both active and National Guard Military Police units from around the nation. In 2005 the last remaining deployed responders were demobilized.<ref name="Responders of the 9/11 attacks">{{cite web|last=Campbell|first=Jeffrey|title=Specialist|url=http://osd.dtic.mil/news/Aug2002/n08222002_200208221.html|work=144th Military Police Company|publisher=Department of Defense|access-date=2 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110823204749/http://osd.dtic.mil/news/Aug2002/n08222002_200208221.html|archive-date=23 August 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>