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FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. - Fort Indiantown Gap is scheduled to host a variety of live-fire artillery, demolition and mortar exercises during the month of May between 8 a.m. and 11 p.m.
Exercises include demolition training May 11 and 13-15; the use of 120 mm mortars May 13-14; Bradley 25 mm firing May 20; 155 mm artillery firing May 20-22; and the use 60 mm and 81 mm mortars May 27-30 .
Fort Indiantown Gap announces training that is expected to result in increased noise levels as a courtesy to nearby residents.
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 and offers more than 17,000 acres and 140 training areas and facilities for year-round training. The installation 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, multinational partners and interagency partners at the federal, state and local level.
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.
Media contact: Tech. Sgt. Ted Nichols, 717-861-6893
| Date Taken: | 05.10.2016 |
| Date Posted: | 05.10.2016 11:47 |
| Story ID: | 197765 |
| Location: | FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, PENNSYLVANIA, US |
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