High school students from Newport News, Va., collect information from an exhibit in the U.S. Army Transportation Museum at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, July 18, 2022. (Abraham Essenmacher/U.S. Air Force)
(Tribune News Service) — The U.S. Army Transportation Museum at Fort Eustis in Newport News, Va., will be closed sometime in the next three years as part of a larger Army transformation initiative.
The Army Museum Enterprise plans to reduce its 41 museum activities at 29 locations to 12 field museums and four training support facilities at 12 locations, according to an announcement from the U.S. Army Center of Military History. The transportation museum will combine with the Quartermaster Museum and Ordnance Training Support Facility at Fort Lee — formerly Fort Gregg-Adams — into a new Logistics Museum at Fort Lee in Richmond, the Progress-Index reported.
A spokesperson for Fort Eustis referred questions to the U.S. Army Center of Military History, which did not respond to multiple calls for comment.
The transportation museum in Newport News currently houses more than 7,000 artifacts, including 135 military vehicles, spanning back to the Revolutionary War. It also houses the only Vietnam gun truck brought back to the U.S. after the Vietnam War.
The Army statement cited maintenance backlogs and insufficient staffing as reason to downsize to better care for the Army’s artifacts, as well as supporting the Army’s overall downsizing efforts.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth sent a memorandum to senior Pentagon leadership on April 30 ordering for the divestment from outdated or inefficient programs, as well as headquarter restructuring with the goal of creating a more lethal military.
While there is yet to be a timeline for the closures, the Army museum consolidation process will continue through the 2029 fiscal year, according to the release.
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