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Grayling Army Airfield is located at Camp Grayling and includes 70 helicopter tiedown pads as well as two 5,000 ft (1,500 m) runways capable of handling C-130 and C-17 aircraft. [5] Camp Grayling has over 600 soldiers in traditional Army National Guard units regularly assigned to it.
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.
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]
The Michigan National Guard began hosting Northern Strike in 2012 and it has since grown into a joint, multi-national exercise program.
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The Grayling area's economy centers on four-season recreation, retirement living, tourism, military, and higher education, and the newspaper covers these concerns. The editorial board often writes aggressively on environmental issues, with a particular emphasis on the ecology of the Au Sable Rivers , expansion of Camp Grayling and political issues.