The AP is reporting that the U.S. military has created a special military headquarters to protect the Washington region from terrorist attacks.

The “Joint Forces Headquarters for the National Capital Region” will be located at Fort Lesley J. McNair, the second oldest U.S. army post which, their website notes, “did not halt the invading British in 1814.” The AP notes that

Before Sept. 11, 2001, the military organizations in Washington focused largely on ceremonial activities like a presidential inauguration, as well as installation management.

Now they are being asked to focus also on homeland defense. Even the U.S. Army Band, for example, is now trained to provide administrative medical support in the event of an attack.

Fort McNair also houses the National Defense University, a golf course, and the “Commander-in-Chief’s Guard” on a point of land identified in Pierre C. L’Enfant’s plan as place to position a military garrison.