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FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. – Fort Indiantown Gap was the busiest National Guard training center in the nation in fiscal year 2025.
For FY25, which ended on Sept. 30, Fort Indiantown Gap hosted 132,200 personnel for 985,514 man-days of training. Man-days are a computation of the number of personnel multiplied by the number of days they trained on post.
“I’m not surprised Fort Indiantown Gap is once again the busiest National Guard training center,” said Col. Kevin Potts, garrison commander. “It’s a testament to the Soldiers and civilians on our team who work tirelessly to ensure that the units that come here to train have whatever they need. Additionally, we are always trying to improve our ranges and facilities to ensure units can conduct challenging, relevant and realistic training.”
Camp Shelby, Mississippi, was the second-busiest training center, with 536,138 man-days of training; Camp Atterbury, Indiana, was third, with 527,766 man-days; and Fort Pickett, Virginia, was fourth, with 273,196 man-days.
This was the ninth time in the last 12 years Fort Indiantown Gap was the busiest training center, and it was the installation’s busiest year since at least 2016.
The installation was the second-busiest training center in FY 2024, and it has been in the top three every year since 2013.
A total of 325 units and organizations trained at Fort Indiantown Gap in FY25, including 278 military units and 43 non-DoD organizations, such as local, state and federal law enforcement agencies.
They expended 3,945,761 rounds of small-arms ammunition, 7,008 pyrotechnics, 6,789 artillery rounds, 6,336 demolitions, 4,052 mortar rounds, 510 fragmentation grenades and nine shoulder-fired rockets.
In addition, Fort Indiantown Gap hosted a Warfighter Exercise in late January and early February that brought about 3,000 personnel to the installation for several weeks.
Lt. Col. Gordon Kinneer, who served as Fort Indiantown Gap’s director of planning, operations, training and security for the fiscal year, said there were several reasons for the installation’s high through-put, including units getting ready to deploy and hosting units that don’t typically train here.
“Of note, we had a multitude of Marine Corps units training and working, helping us improve our ranges and training areas; and getting after their own training requirements,” Kinneer said. “We executed some significant improvements to our range facilities during 2025 like adding the capability of conducting a company level live-fire exercise and a few additional platoon level LFXs. The Marines, our own engineers, Range Operations and Range Maintenance employees made that project happen with very little resources and even less funding.”
The high through-put is a testament to Fort Indiantown Gap’s forward-leaning attitude, which is attracting units that require complex training environments, Kinneer said.
“We couldn’t do it without our awesome team of Soldiers and civilians,” Kinneer said. “Their hard work and dedication are the reason Fort Indiantown Gap has been the number one National Guard Training Center in the nation, in terms of throughput, for nine of the last 12 years."
Located in northern Lebanon and Dauphin counties, Fort Indiantown Gap encompasses more than 17,000 acres of land. It is home to numerous ranges, training facilities and schools as well as the headquarters of the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs and the Pennsylvania National Guard.
| Date Taken: | 11.14.2025 |
| Date Posted: | 11.14.2025 14:24 |
| Story ID: | 551119 |
| Location: | FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, PENNSYLVANIA, US |
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