December 2019 mortars training at Fort Indiantown Gap

Photo By Sgt. 1st Class Zane Craig | 1st Lt. Ronald Wetherson, executive officer and acting commander of A Company, and Sgt. Michael Lavan, a combat engineer, both with the 103rd Engineer Battalion, 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division, Pennsylvania Army National Guard, set up smoke pots, which simulate the smoke from mortars June 29 during a live fire exercise in North Macedonia, part of Decisive Strike 19. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Zane Craig)  

FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES

11.26.2019

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Fort Indiantown Gap

FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. – The installation is scheduled to host mortars training during the month of December between 8 a.m. and 11 p.m.

Mortars training will be conducted December 6 and 7.

Fort Indiantown Gap announces training that is expected to result in increased noise levels as a courtesy to nearby residents. The training schedule is subject to change based on the military training mission.

Fort Indiantown Gap is the only live-fire, maneuver military training facility in Pennsylvania. The installation is the busiest National Guard training center in the nation. 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.

Fort Indiantown Gap is an active military installation and routinely conducts training, in addition to specifically announced training, on a variety of ranges. Routine training includes, but is not limited to, small arms fire and aviation training - both rotary wing aircraft training at Muir Army Airfield and fixed wing aircraft training on Bollen Range.

To learn more about Fort Indiantown Gap, visit our website and follow us on Facebook.

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.

Fort Indiantown Gap is now enrolled in AlertPA, a mass notification service by CodeRED. Subscribe to get alerts delivered straight to your phone and/or email whenever the installation is conducting prescribed burns or training that may result in increased noise levels. Sign up for AlertPA here, then subscribe to Fort Indiantown Gap community notifications under 'Additional Notifications'. Notification settings may be adjusted as needed at any time.

Media contact: Lt. Col. Keith Hickox, 717-861-6254

• Date Taken: 11.26.2019
• Date Posted: 11.26.2019 08:46
• Story ID: 353450
• Location: FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, PENNSYLVANIA, US