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Grayling Air Gunnery Range provides over 147,000 acres of joint use ground maneuver and impact range space. During the summer months, Camp Grayling hosts National Guard units from Michigan, the surrounding states, and Canada. Large artillery, mortar, and tank ranges as well as maneuver courses highlight the camp.
Exercise Northern Strike is a military readiness exercise hosted annually at Michigan National Guard facilities, including the Alpena CRTC, Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center, Grayling Aerial Gunnery Range, the Carmeuse Calcite Quarry in Rogers City, the former site of K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base as well as over the skies of northern Michigan and Lake Huron.
In early 1960s, the Grayling Air-to-Ground Gunnery Range Negotiations began and early during the decade the range was constructed on 1,900 acres near Grayling, Michigan. Soon after, aircraft could be seen using the site to fly sorties for aircraft gunnery and bombing exercises. This added asset increased the usage and value of the base immensely.
The Michigan National Guard began hosting Northern Strike in 2012 and it has since grown into a joint, multi-national exercise program.
The earliest French bases were quite small and short-lived. Later some installations would be in use for over a century (Fort Wayne, Fort Mackinaw) and spread over large areas (Fort Custer - 14,000 acres (57 km 2), Camp Grayling - 147,000 acres (590 km 2)). In chronological order:
Grayling Army Airfield: Camp Grayling: Michigan: KGOV ... Yuma Proving Ground: Arizona: KLGF Lawson Army Airfield: ... White Sands Missile Range: New Mexico: 95E [6]
Grayling AAF, Grayling; still active United States Army airfield (did not xfer to USAF), part of Camp Grayling. Tri-City AAF, Saginaw; Now: MBS International Airport (IATA: MBS, ICAO: KMBS) Troop Carrier Command. Kellogg AAF, Battle Creek; Troop Carrier Training 321st Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron
The 119th Field Artillery conducted joint summer training at Camp Grayling, Michigan with the 329th Field Artillery [81] in 1928, 1932 and 1937 and with the 328th Field Artillery [82] in 1929 and 1936. [83] The 119th Field Artillery participated in Second Army Maneuvers held out of Camp Custer, Michigan from 8 to 22 August 1936. [84]