Live-fire exercises planned at Fort Indiantown Gap

Photo By Lt. Col. Angela King-Sweigart | Members of the 166th Regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard, fire the M109A6 Paladin, a self-propelled artillery piece June 24, 2014, on Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa.  

FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, PA, UNITED STATES

07.31.2015

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Fort Indiantown Gap

FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. - Fort Indiantown Gap is scheduled to host live fire 155 mm artillery exercises between Sunday, Aug. 2 and Wednesday Aug. 5.

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 www.ftig.ng.mil or follow on Facebook at 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: Maj. Angela King-Sweigart, 717-861-8829

• Date Taken: 07.31.2015
• Date Posted: 07.31.2015 09:25
• Story ID: 171722
• Location: FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, PA, US