Schofield Barracks is a United States Army installation (and census-designated place or CDP) located in the City & County of Honolulu and in the Wahiawa District of the island of Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi. Schofield Barracks lies adjacent to the town of Wahiawā, separated from most of it by Lake Wilson (also known as Wahiawā Reservoir). Schofield Barracks is named after Lieutenant General John McAllister Schofield. He was sent to Hawaiʻi in 1872 as Secretary of War for President of the United States Andrew Johnson and recommended the establishment of a naval base at Pearl Harbor.
Schofield Barracks occupies some 17,725-acres on Central Oʻahu. The base was established in 1908 to provide mobile defense of Pearl Harbor and the entire island. It has been the home of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry (Light), known as the Tropic Lightning Division, since 1941. As of the 2000 Census, the base population was 14,428 military personnel and families.
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