Fort Indiantown Gap Cantonment

 military, camp, National Guard (USA)

Fort Indiantown Gap

A 19,600 acre Army post, which is a sub-installation of Fort Meade (located outside of Washington DC). It has a bomb disposal facility and training center, and around 1,500 employees. Mostly National Guard operations. Fort Indiantown Gap, also referred to as "The Gap" or "FIG", is a census-designated place and U.S. Army post primarily located in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.

The installation is an active National Guard Training Center and serves as headquarters for the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs and the Pennsylvania National Guard. The fort surrounds Memorial Lake State Park.

The Fort Indiantown Gap Military Reservation is protected by a full time police force. The Fort Indiantown Gap Police enforce traffic and other state laws. The post includes 18,000 acres (73 km2), with numerous ranges and training areas for the 28th Infantry Division, the 213th Area Support Group and the Eastern Army National Guard Aviation Training Site (EAATS). The installation is also home to the Northeast Counterdrug Training Center (NCTC).

Order of Battle

State headquarters of the Pennsylvania Army and Air National Guard

35 separate Army and Air Guard units drill here, with a total of 3,500 drilling members

140 maneuver areas, firing ranges and bivouac sites

166th Regiment (Combat Arms),
a regional training academy with state-of-the-art distance learning capability

Eastern Army National Guard Aviation Training Site,
the only reserve component training center for utility and medium-lift helicopters

Muir Army Airfield, second busiest helicopter base in the world

Air-to-Ground Bomb Range for active and reserve fighter pilots from all the services

3rd Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team

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