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Fort Rucker is a United States Army post located primarily in Dale County in Alabama's Wiregrass region, with small sections of the post also lying in Coffee, Geneva, and Houston counties.

The installation covers about 63,100 acres of southeast Alabama countryside and has entrances from the neighboring cities of Daleville, Ozark, and Enterprise.

Part of the Dale County section of the base is a census-designated place, and the 2020 census counted 4,464 people living in the Fort Rucker CDP, down from 4,636 in 2010.

The Fort Rucker CDP covers about 10.9 square miles of the post's on-post housing and community area.

The post opened on May 1, 1942, as Camp Rucker, built during World War II on sub-marginal farmland that had formerly been a wildlife refuge, with quarters for 3,280 officers and 39,461 enlisted personnel.

During World War II, Camp Rucker trained the 81st, 35th, 98th, and 66th Infantry Divisions and housed several hundred German and Italian prisoners of war.

The Army Aviation Center was established at the post in February 1955, and in October 1955 the post gained permanent status under the name Fort Rucker.

Fort Rucker is the primary flight-training installation for U.S. Army aviators and is home to the United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence; all Army aviation training has been conducted there since 1973, and U.S. Air Force helicopter pilots have trained there since 1971.

The post is also home to the United States Army Aviation Museum, and because so many warrant officers are stationed there, it hosts the Warrant Officer Candidate School and the Warrant Officer Career College.

Children living on post attend Ellis D. Parker Elementary School, a Department of Defense Education Activity school that opened in 2020, while older students attend public schools in Daleville, Enterprise, or Ozark.