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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 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]
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 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:
Camp Grayling itself has existed since 1913, while the airport was constructed in 1927–1929 for use by the National Guard Air Squadron of Detroit. The runways were hard surfaced in 1933 and the entire airport was turned over to the federal government for military use during World War II. The airfield was known, for a time, as McNamara Field ...
Camp Grayling, the main training facility for the Michigan National Guard, occupies all of the township west of the city of Grayling. The Au Sable River flows west to east across the center of the township, joined by its East Branch from the north, while Lake Margrethe is in the western part of the township within Camp Grayling.
Grayling Army Airfield: Camp Grayling: Michigan: KGOV Hagler Army Airfield: Camp Shelby: Mississippi: KSLJ Henry Post Army Airfield: Fort Sill: Oklahoma: KFSI Hunter Army Airfield: Fort Stewart: Georgia: KSVN Ladd Army Airfield: Fort Wainwright: Alaska: PAFB Laguna Army Airfield: Yuma Proving Ground: Arizona: KLGF Lawson Army Airfield: Fort ...
Camp Blanding; Camp Bowie; Camp Curtis Guild; Camp Dawson (West Virginia) Camp Dodge; Camp Edwards; Camp Ethan Allen Training Site; Camp Grafton; Camp Grayling; Camp Gruber; Camp James A. Garfield; Camp Maxey; Camp Perkins; Camp Perry; Camp Rapid; Camp Rilea Heliport; Camp Ripley; Camp San Luis Obispo; Camp Sherman, Ohio; Camp Smith (New York ...