The 38th Canadian Brigade Group Conducts Exercise Sure-Shot at Camp Ripley Training Center in Little Falls, Minnesota during the month of March 2024. Led by the Lake Superior Scottish Regiment, Exercise Sure-Shot has been an annual infantry fundamentals training exercise that has been hosted by Camp Ripley since 1977. Exercise Sure-Shot also includes a Basic Military Qualification Course group and a group from the Canadian Royal Navy from His Majesty’s Canadian Ship Griffon (Minnesota Army National Guard Video by SSG Jorden Newbanks).
The 38th Canadian Brigade Group Conducts Exercise Sure-Shot at Camp Ripley Training Center in Little Falls, Minnesota during the month of March, 2024. Led by the Lake Superior Scottish Regiment, Exercise Sure-Shot has been an annual infantry fundamentals training exercise that has been hosted by Camp Ripley since 1977. Exercise Sure-Shot also includes a Basic Military Qualification Course group and a group from the Canadian Royal Navy from...
Camp Ripley Training Center in Little Falls, Minnesota hosted the 51st annual Norwegian Reciprocal Troop Exchange (NOREX), a cultural and joint-training event between the Minnesota National Guard and the Norwegian Home Guard Rapid Reaction Force (RRF) and the Home Defense Youth, on February 1st through the 12th.
CAMP RIPLEY, Minn. – Shari Boser, a cosmetologist and mother of two service members, joined the Barber Shop at Camp Ripley Training Center in August 2023 for the winter training season.
Camp Ripley was host to a joint training exercise conducted by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety. The Minnesota National Guard, federal, state, and local organizations conducted a joint communication exercise on August 23rd and 24th, 2023, utilizing Camp Ripley's urban operation ranges to increase operational readiness and interagency coordination between all levels.
Camp Ripley Training Center reinstated the Job Shadow program for the Little Falls Community High School Students. After years of dormancy, improvements were made to the program, and we reintroduced it to the students.
Minnesota National Guard Staff Sgt. Ashley Watson joined the Army in 2008 as an administrative assistant but quickly decided she was destined for combat arms.
"It wasn't what I wanted. I wanted to be in the field and action; I wanted that comradery and experience," says Watson.
"I wanted to be a tanker. It was a driving force for me to be in the military, and when I found out I couldn't because I'm a female, I was devastated. I couldn't...
