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Pa. National Guard medics train at Fort Indiantown Gap
March 11, 2022 — Combat medics with the Pennsylvania National Guard participated in a nine-day medic sustainment course recently at Fort Indiantown Gap... MORE

Combat medics with the Pennsylvania National Guard provide security while another renders tactical field care to a simulated casualty as part of the TC8-800 medic sustainment course March 2 at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania. The course enabled the 17 participants to train together with other medics outside their home units Feb. 17-March 3.

Pa. National Guard pilots training course for U.S. Northern Command
March 10, 2022 — More than 20 members of the Pennsylvania National Guard joint staff along with partners from the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency piloted a three-day staff-training course March 7-9 led by trainers from U.S. Northern Command. ... MORE

Army Maj. Justin Cassidy, future operations officer, and Air Force Maj. Shawn Bearinger, Air future operations officer, discuss plan options during a staff training course March 8 at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania. The trial course, hosted by U.S. Northern Command, will be the Phase II of the Joint Staff Training Course. The course trained staff on emergency preparedness using a notional Category 2 Hurricane scenario.

Chaplain returns to chapel at Fort Indiantown Gap
January 21, 2022 — The Pennsylvania National Guard Joint Force Headquarters chaplain recently moved his office to the main post chapel at Fort Indiantown Gap. ... MORE

Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Schaun Myers, Pennsylvania National Guard Joint Force Headquarters chaplain, poses inside the main post chapel at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa., on Jan. 19, 2022.

New police station under construction at Fort Indiantown Gap
December 16, 2021 — Construction recently began on a new police station at Fort Indiantown Gap. ... MORE

A rendering of the new police station that is under construction at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa.

Gate construction begins at Fort Indiantown Gap
December 13, 2021 — Preliminary work has begun on the first of two planned access control points at Fort Indiantown Gap... MORE

Construction crews recently began staging equipment and installing erosion and sedimentation controls at the future location of the installation’s main gate and visitors center on Fisher Avenue near Biddle Road. It will be the first of two planned access control points at Fort Indiantown Gap.

Engineers from Dover Air Force Base complete readiness training at Fort Indiantown Gap
December 7, 2021 — Members the 436th Civil Engineer Squadron from Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, recently traveled to the Regional Training Site at Fort Indiantown Gap to complete a 96-hour training exercise requirement... MORE

Engineers complete off-site readiness training

Emergency management communicators hold meeting at Fort Indiantown Gap
November 4, 2021 — More than 60 emergency management communicators gathered in-person and virtually at Fort Indiantown Gap to discuss disaster communications and best practices Nov. 3 and 4. ... MORE

Maj. Victor Yartz, left, Pennsylvania National Guard, and Sgt. Craig Polen, Pennsylvania State Police Bureau of Communications Information Services, work together at the FEMA Region 3-facilitated Fall Regional Emergency Communications Coordination Working Group at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, on Nov. 3, 2021. Pennsylvania State Police set-up their mobile command center at the event.

Fort Indiantown Gap busiest National Guard training center in 2021
October 28, 2021 — For the second year in a row and fifth time in the last seven years, Fort Indiantown Gap was the busiest National Guard training center in the country... MORE

A Soldier from 1st Battalion, 109th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, provides dismounted security while the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle gunner provides rear security on the road during improvised explosive device training lane at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa., on Aug. 11, 2021.

Army unveils new Black Hawk variant at Fort Indiantown Gap
October 6, 2021 — The U.S. Army unveiled the newest variant of the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, the UH-60V, during a ceremony Wednesday at the Pennsylvania National Guard’s Eastern Army National Guard Aviation Training Site... MORE

A UH-60V Black Hawk helicopter is parked on Muir Army Airfield for a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new variant on Oct. 6, 2021, at the Eastern Army National Guard Aviation Training Site at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa. EAATS was the first unit in the Army – active duty, National Guard or Army Reserve – to receive the new variant.

Pa. Guard, Lithuanians train together in State Partnership Program platoon exchange
September 21, 2021 — Fort Indiantown Gap hosted 33 Soldiers from Lithuania’s land forces reserve component Sept. 6 to 17 for an annual platoon exchange, part of the Pennsylvania National Guard’s partnership with Lithuania through the National Guard's State Partnership Program. ... MORE

Sgt. 1st Class Dale Mahafkey, right, an Army combat medic and senior instructor with Medical Battalion Training Site at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa., coaches Lithuanian Soldiers as they treat a simulated casualty on Sept. 10. Thirty-three Soldiers from Lithuania’s land forces reserve component came to Fort Indiantown Gap Sept. 6-17 for an annual platoon exchange, part of the Pennsylvania National Guard’s State Partnership Program.