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Camp Atterbury-Muscatatuck is a federally owned military post, licensed to and operated by the Indiana National Guard, located in south-central Indiana, 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Edinburgh, Indiana and U.S. Route 31. The camp's mission is to provide full logistical and training support for up to two brigade-sized elements simultaneously.
Edinburgh Correctional Facility [1] is a minimum-security work camp located in the middle of Camp Atterbury, [2] a military training camp near Edinburgh, Indiana.The inmates work on the grounds of Camp Atterbury and on road crews with the Indiana Department of Transportation and park maintenance with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.
Organized 25 August 1917 at Camp Meade, Maryland Demobilized 7 June 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 157th Infantry Brigade, and assigned to the 79th Division Organized in November 1921 at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Columnist and Camp Atterbury volunteer writes of friendship and welcoming to Afghan refugees.
In December 2007, the brigade was activated again to support Operation Iraqi Freedom. The brigade trained for 1 month at Camp Atterbury, Indiana and then on 3 January 2008 moved to Fort Stewart, Georgia, to conduct an additional 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 months' training before deploying to Iraq. Once in Iraq, the Brigade HQ assumed duties of the Garrison ...
The 38th Infantry Division was activated at Camp Shelby, MS, and would serve in the Pacific from 1944-1945, earning the nickname "Avengers of Bataan." After World War II, the Army debated the necessity of a separate National Guard at all, deciding finally in 1947 to maintain the unique dual-status purpose of the National Guard.
In June 1942 it was announced that a new airfield would be established near Camp Atterbury, a military training camp in south-central Indiana, approximately 12 miles (19 km) north of Columbus and 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Edinburgh. The 2,000-acre (8.1 km 2) airfield was initially called the Columbus Air Support Command base. [1]
The U.S. Army's A Company, 4th Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment, 1st Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne Division conduct gunnery with their LAV-25A2s at Camp Atterbury, Indiana Date 11 February 2019