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FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. - The Pennsylvania National Guard is scheduled to conduct training in northern Dauphin County on Thursday, Nov. 5, from 5-9 p.m.
The training will be based out of Fort Indiantown Gap, Lebanon County, and extend north of the installation between the boroughs of Millersburg and Lykens. Three helicopters will be airborne and uniformed military personnel carrying radios will be on the ground coordinating and supporting the exercise.
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 20,000 Pennsylvania National Guard personnel and more than 120,000 additional personnel from other branches of service, interagency partners at the federal, state and local level and multinational partners.
To learn more about Fort Indiantown Gap, visit www.ftig.pa.gov 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.
| Date Taken: | 11.05.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 11.05.2015 09:04 |
| Story ID: | 180964 |
| Location: | FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, PA, US |
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