If you hear rumblings from northern Lebanon County over the this month, worry not – it’s probably just the Gap.

Here’s the training schedule at Fort Indiantown Gap for the rest of July 2024.

Demolition training will be held July 9 to July 12 between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Artillery live-fire training will be held July 17 to July 23 between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m.

Members of the 2nd Brigade Special Troops Battalion conducted demolition training June 5, 2012. The charges created an eight-foot deep crater with a 15-foot diameter. (Spc. Victoria McCallum)

Fort Indiantown Gap is the only live-fire and maneuver military base in Pennsylvania. It is considered the nation’s largest National Guard training facility by number of mandays trained – close to one million annually.

Here’s video from a previous year’s exercises.

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