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FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. - Fort Indiantown Gap is scheduled to host a variety of exercises between Thursday, March 19, and Thursday, March 26.
Training using 60 and 81 mm mortar rounds is scheduled Thursday, March 19 through Sunday, March 22.
Training using 105 mm artillery is scheduled Friday, March 20 through Sunday, March 22.
Training using Bradley Fighting Vehicles is scheduled Tuesday, March 24, and Wednesday, March 25.
Training using explosive demolitions is scheduled Wednesday, March 25, and Thursday, March 26.
Fort Indiantown Gap announces training that is expected to result in increased noise levels as a courtesy to nearby residents. To minimize disruption in neighboring communities, firing is routinely scheduled to begin no sooner than 8 a.m. each morning and end no later than 11 p.m. each night.
Fort Indiantown Gap is the only live-fire, maneuver military training facility in Pennsylvania. It serves as headquarters to the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs and Pennsylvania National Guard, offers more than 17,000 acres and 140 training areas and facilities for year-round training. It balances one of the region’s most ecologically diverse areas with a military mission that annually supports 19,000 Pennsylvania National Guard personnel and more than 130,000 other states’ Guard, military, law enforcement, and civilian personnel each year.
To learn more about Fort Indiantown Gap, visit http://www.ftig.ng.mil or follow on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ftindiantowngap.
Individuals may also call the installation’s community information line at 717-861-2007 to hear a recorded message with dates and times of community activities and training events.
Media contact: Staff Sgt. Matt Jones, 717-861-8352
| Date Taken: | 03.18.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 03.18.2015 09:48 |
| Story ID: | 157338 |
| Location: | FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, PA, US |
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