Artillery Live-Fire Exercise This Week at Fort Indiantown Gap

Area Residents May Notice Increased Noise

HARRISBURG, Pa., April 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An artillery live-fire exercise will be conducted between the hours of 8 a.m. and 11 p.m. from April 4-8 at Fort Indiantown Gap, Lebanon County.

Live-fire exercises using 155-millimeter artillery, conducted approximately six times a year, are announced to alert area residents to the potential for increased noise levels.  

Fort Indiantown Gap offers more than 17,000 acres and 140 training areas and facilities for year-round training. It annually supports 19,000 Pennsylvania National Guard personnel and more than 130,000 other states' Guard, military, law enforcement, and civilian personnel each year. It is the only live-fire, maneuver military training facility in Pennsylvania.

For more information visit the DMVA online at www.dmva.state.pa.us.

Media contact: Maj. Ed Shank, 717-861-8468 (office); 717-943-4092 (cell)

SOURCE Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs

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