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FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. - The director of the Army National Guard toured several Pennsylvania National Guard facilities Friday, Oct. 2.
Lt. Gen. Timothy J. Kadavy’s tour began with a private meeting with Pennsylvania’s adjutant general, Maj. Gen. James Joseph.
Members of the 166th Regimental Training Institute met with Kadavy over lunch. The 166th comprises a noncommissioned officer academy, officer and warrant officer candidate schools, and multiple military occupational specialty courses.
The tour continued with a visit to the Unit Training Equipment Site, the state’s largest concentration of military vehicles and maintainers. Kadavy discussed issues related to equipment maintenance to include ways to make training maintainers of the state’s Stryker vehicles more efficient.
Pennsylvania is the only state National Guard with a Stryker brigade, the 56th Stryker Brigade based out of Horsham.
Kadavy was also scheduled to visit the Mission Training Complex or MTC, Army Aviation Support Facility or AASF, Eastern Army National Guard Aviation Training Site or EAATS, and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle facility.
The MTC allows command elements of all levels and sizes to conduct staff-centric training and missions. For instance, the Pennsylvania National Guard Joint Task Force was based out of this complex while thousands of National Guard members were activated to assist with law-enforcement agencies during the 2015 World Meeting of Families and papal visit to Philadelphia.
The AASF is located at Muir Army Airfield, the second busiest heliport in the country. This airfield is used by nearly all Pennsylvania Army National Guard aviators. Upwards of 2,000 people train there annually, to include pilots, crew members and mechanics from all branches of service, and even international aviators.
| Date Taken: | 10.02.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 10.13.2015 11:34 |
| Story ID: | 178765 |
| Location: | FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, PENNSYLVANIA, US |
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