Explosives training planned this week at Camp James A. Garfield Military Training Center

Residents and business owners near Camp James A. Garfield Joint Military Training Center in eastern Portage County may notice an increase in blast noise from the area this week.

Explosives will be used during training by the Ohio Army National Guard’s 147th Regiment on Wednesday and Thursday.

The 147th Regiment will be conducting training exercises specifically designed for soldiers taking the combat engineer course. Explosives training simulates realistic battle conditions.

Sounds from the explosions may be heard farther away than what occurs during normal

operations. There will be intermittent explosions and gunfire at the facility during annual

training season, which runs through September.

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The 147th Regiment provides institutional training within assigned career management fields, Army Noncommissioned Officer Education System, officer candidate school, and warrant officer candidate school missions based on the collective requirements identified by the National Guard Bureau-ART-I (Individual Training Branch), the Army Program for Individual Training for the Army National Guard, the U.S. Army Reserve, the Active Component, and the Subject Matter Expert Regiment in support of the U.S. Army’s modular force.

Camp James A. Garfield Joint Military Training Center is an Ohio Army National Guard training site in Portage and Trumbull counties that consists of about 21,000 acres, with various small arms weapons ranges and permanent facilities to support individual and collective training events for both weekend and annual training.

The installation is undergoing major infrastructure improvements to become a world-class training center for Army and other Department of Defense units in the midwestern United States. Among the recent improvements are a fire and movement range and a new automated record fire range.

Camp James A. Garfield also features TADSS — which stands for Training Aids, Devices, Simulators and Simulations — state-of-the-art digital training equipment that allows for realistic combat training without the logistical challenges of live-fire ranges.

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