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Activity[edit]

I have changed the tensing of the post to show that it is active since there is a lot going on there. Devens has also shown up on the active list of military installations. If you are going to do anything that might tinker with this notion, discuss it here please. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 04:39, 26 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What exactly "closed" when, and what was kept open? Is there an official source describing it as active/inactive? -- Beland (talk) 17:00, 30 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

@Beland: The fort closed per BRAC in 1996, opened back up as the Devens Reserve Forces Training Area the next day, was renamed in 2007, and continues to be active as a training fort to this day. Essentially what happened is that the base rapidly shrunk and became semi-active when compared to pre-BRAC levels, so I hope this helps even though it is almost three years after you asked. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 00:32, 6 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Ft. Devens was definitely decommissioned several years ago. Last time I drove through it, maybe 1990, the USASATC&S HQ buildings (Vicksburg Sq.) were being leased out for civilian redevelopment. If it was ever reactivated, I didn't hear about it.

The lede is wrong about it being "in" Ayer and Shirley; it is adjacent to them. — DAGwyn (talk) 02:52, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, the land that was to become Fort Devens was taken from the towns of Ayer and mostly Harvard.--Ishtar456 (talk) 02:19, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Update[edit]

This article is the victim of long neglect. Devens is designated "a regional enterprise zone and census-designated place in the towns of Ayer and Shirley, in Middlesex County and Harvard in Worcester County", never having acheived township. The support for units active section is an article published shortly after 9-11, and so not aplicable except as history. I am going to change a few tenses, but unless I can find supporting sources, I won't be adding much. rags (talk) 19:43, 1 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The museum seems to exist, and is a source of information, but their history ends with the "closing" of 1996:http://www.fortdevensmuseum.org/history.php. NIS/NCIS, along with other investigative and intelligence-gathering units, as part of a joint interservice taskforce, seemed to have had a presence at Fort Devens, although it may have been classified. No more time for Wikipedia today. As it seems to have been mouldering for several years, I guess this article can wait a few more days. rags (talk) 20:27, 1 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2016 Comment (from the BLAR'd cemetery article)[edit]

Fort Devens Cemetery is near the towns of Ayer and Shirley, MA. Bourne is on Cape Cod, nowhere near this area. The reference to Bourne should be removed.23.251.68.246 (talk) 17:56, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]