Legacy
Myer is honored by several entities: Fort Whipple, Virginia, was renamed Fort Myer in 1881; U.S. Navy ship (formerly U.S. Army Ship) USNS Albert J. Myer (T-ARC-6), an undersea cable-laying vessel built in the 1950s; the Albert J. Myer Center, the Signal Headquarters building of the U.S. Army Communication Electronics Command (CECOM) at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey; and the General Albert J. Myer Forecast Facility at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport.
Hobart College awarded Myer an honorary LL.D. degree in 1872 and Union College conferred an honorary Ph.D. on him in 1875.
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