Fort Indiantown Gap to host large exercise

Courtesy Photo | The Fort Indiantown Gap sign welcoming visitors to post. (Courtesy photo by Pennsylvania National Guard)  

FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, PA, UNITED STATES

10.21.2016

Story by Maj. Angela King-Sweigart 

Fort Indiantown Gap

FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. – Approximately 4,500 service members from the Army and Air National Guards, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army Reserves, and British army will participate in Warfighter 17-2, an exercise being held here from late Oct. to late Nov.

Local residents and installation tenants should expect increased traffic and military activity.

This is the first time Fort Indiantown Gap has been selected to host a division-level warfighter exercise.

Warfighter exercises are computer-simulated. They are designed to train and test military units on command and control procedures and communication while responding to various scenarios.

Fort Indiantown Gap, headquarters to the DMVA 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. It is the only live-fire, maneuver military training facility in Pennsylvania and the busiest National Guard Training Center in the country.

For more information visit the Fort Indiantown Gap website at ftig.png.pa.gov, or follow us on Facebook at 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: 10.21.2016
• Date Posted: 10.21.2016 14:43
• Story ID: 212598
• Location: FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, PA, US