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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...

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...

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. ...

Fort Indiantown Gap was not the first military fortification in area
September 3, 2021 — A short distance east of Fort Indiantown Gap, a small monument stands alongside the road. The simple monument – a boulder with a bronze plaque affixed to it – marks the approximate location of Fort Swatara, a military fortification used in the 1750s during the French and Indian War...

Fort Indiantown Gap opens new regional Training Support Center
August 24, 2021 — FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. – A new 63,000-square-foot Training Support Center opened here earlier this year, consolidating the operations previously located in six World War II-era buildings into one state-of-the-art facility...

EAATS receives new Black Hawk variant
July 28, 2021 — The Pennsylvania National Guard’s Eastern Army National Guard Aviation Training Site received the first fielding of UH-60V Black Hawks from the Utility Helicopter Program Office on July 27. ...

Fort Indiantown Gap hosts advanced Honor Guard course
July 27, 2021 — Non-commissioned officers from seven different states participated in an intensive two-week course at Fort Indiantown Gap that will certify them as Army National Guard Military Funeral Honors Level 2 trainers...

Memorial to fallen Guardsmen dedicated at Fort Indiantown Gap
July 21, 2021 — Family, friends and fellow Soldiers of three Pennsylvania National Guardsmen killed in Afghanistan in 2011 gathered here to dedicate a memorial in their honor July 18...

Transition Assistance Advisors assist transitioning service members
June 30, 2021 — Starting a new chapter in one’s life, such as a new job or moving to a new area, can be difficult...

Aviation Soldiers from Iowa, Virginia and West Virginia National Guards train at FTIG
June 17, 2021 — Approximately 145 aviation maintenance Soldiers from the Iowa, Virginia and West Virginia National Guards honed their skills repairing helicopters at Muir Army Airfield here June 1 to 15...