Fort Indiantown Gap is set to host another warfighter exercise – a validation/recertification of division and brigade levels occasionally held by the army to assess deployment capabilities.
Gap officials said that at the height of the exercise, approximately 3,000 additional personnel will be present at Fort Indiantown Gap, and local residents may notice an increase in vehicular traffic. Personnel will begin arriving this week.
While the exercise is happening at Fort Indiantown Gap, it’s the different army units involved that are actually running it. As LebTown has reported about past warfighter exercises, the event serves as a realistic simulation that tests unit-level leadership and staff decisions. The primary goal of the warfighter exercise is so that the army knows that certain units will be able to deploy if and when the need arises.
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Although local residents should expect an increase in base traffic during the exercise, base activity will still be moderate compared to the Gap’s usual busy season, which runs from the week after Easter through August, with training volume peaking in June or July.
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Fort Indiantown Gap has been in the top three busiest National Guard training centers since 2013, and was ranked #1 for five of those years. In fiscal year 2024, Fort Indiantown Gap was the second busiest National Guard training center, hosting 132,150 personnel for a total of 804,714 man-days.
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