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"The Human U.S. Shield," 30,000 officers and men, at Camp Custer, Michigan, World War I, (1918). Camp Custer was built in 1917 for military training during World War I.Named after Civil War cavalry officer General George Armstrong Custer, the facility trained or demobilized more than 100,000 troops during World War I, including 5,000 for Polar Bear Expedition as part of the Allied intervention ...
Fort Custer may refer to: Fort Custer (Montana) , a historic U.S. Army fort in Montana, constructed in 1877, and abandoned in 1898 Fort Custer Training Center , a Michigan Army National Guard training facility in Michigan, built in 1917
Yellowstone National Park turned to the U.S. Army for help, and in 1886 men from Company M, First United States Cavalry, and Fort Custer, Montana Territory under Captain Moses Harris came to Yellowstone to begin what would be more than 30 years of military presence in Yellowstone.
Custer Air Force Station (ADC ID: P-67 DC-6, NORAD ID: Z-67, DC-6) is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar and Direction Center station. It is located 5.3 miles (8.5 km) west-northwest of Battle Creek, Michigan .
Fort Custer State Recreation Area is a 3,033-acre (12 km 2) State Recreation Area located between Battle Creek and Kalamazoo, Michigan. The area features lakes, the Kalamazoo River , over 25 miles of multi-use trails, second growth oak barrens and dry-mesic southern (oak-hickory) forests.
Fort Custer National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located just outside the village of Augusta in Kalamazoo County, Michigan. It encompasses 770.4 acres (311.8 ha), and as of 2022 [update] had 33,000 interments.
The regiment also conducted infantry Citizens' Military Training Camps some years at Camp Custer or Fort Brady, Michigan, as an alternate form of summer training. The primary ROTC "feeder" school was Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science in Lansing.
The hospital grew as the flow of casualties increased. In 1944, W.K. Kellogg donated his mansion on nearby Gull Lake to the Army, which assigned it to Percy Jones as a convalescent center. The Fort Custer Reception Center was also used by Percy Jones for patients on "casual duty". [9]