Camp Swift Military Reservation

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Camp Swift, established in 1942 as a major combat infantry training area for WWII, is now a Texas Army National Guard (TXARNG) training site. Training activities conducted at Camp Swift include basic infantry skills, tank maneuvers, combat engineering skills, helicopter operations, small arms and crew-served weapons firing, personnel/cargo air drops, and demolition. The Camp Swift training site provides a training environment for military and civilian organizations with training areas and facilities on a year round basis, to accommodate up to a battalion size. All NCOs in the Texas National Guard who take classes to be promoted have to go through training at Camp Swift near the small town of Bastrop. Along with classrooms for advanced courses, the camp includes a variety of training facilities: a "gas chamber" for gas-mask training, a drop zone for airborne units, helicopter landing sites, pistol and rifle ranges, and space for land navigation testing. Camp Swift provides training areas with ranges for guns as small as hand guns to fields for tanks and artillery.