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Camp Grayling was founded in 1913 on an initial grant of land from Grayling lumber baron Rasmus Hanson to the state for military training. [1] It includes 147,000 acres (590 km 2) in Crawford, Kalkaska and Otsego counties.
The majority of the ground phase of Exercise Northern Strike takes place on the 147,000 acres of the Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center. The largest National Guard training center in the country. [18] Camp Grayling is the largest open airspace for training east of the Mississippi River. [19]
However, some years, annual summer training was conducted at Camp Custer, Michigan. 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 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 (ICAO: KGOV, FAA LID: GOV) is a public/military use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) northwest of the central business district of Grayling, in Crawford County, Michigan, United States. It is owned by United States Army. [1] The airfield is located 7 miles (11 km) northeast of the main cantonment area of Camp ...
He speaks with a parade-ground staccato, occasionally punctuating his thoughts with a concussive “Hell-fire!” The majority of moral injury cases go much deeper, he said. “They’re more about survivor’s guilt, death of children, death of civilians, that are just part and parcel of combat action.
The Grayling Air Gunnery Range provides over 147,000 acres of joint use ground maneuver and impact range space. A C-17 Globemaster III taxi's during Crisis Look 2004, an exercise at the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center here 16 October. The aircraft is assigned to the 62nd Airlift Wing at McChord Air Force Base, Washington