FORT HOOD is one of the largest army bases in America, sprawling over more than 300 square miles (some 780 square kilometres) of nondescript central Texas grassland between Austin and Waco.

胡德堡是美国最大的军事基地之一，在位于奥斯汀和韦科市之间德州中部的草原上，占地超过300平方英里(约780平方公里)。

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As historian Paul Johnson has written, America around the time Hoover governed had the 16th largest army in the world, behind Romania.

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