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Fort Benjamin Harrison was a U.S. Army post located in suburban Lawrence Township, Marion County, Indiana, northeast of Indianapolis, between 1906 and 1991. It is named for the 23rd United States president , Benjamin Harrison .
In January 1941 the U.S. War Department issued orders to consider potential sites for a new U.S. Army training center in Indiana.After the Hurd Engineering Company surveyed an estimated 50,000 acres (200 km 2), an area was selected for the camp in south-central Indiana, approximately 30 miles (48 km) south of Indianapolis, 12 miles (19 km) north of Columbus, and 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Edinburgh.
Stout Army Airfield was established in 1926, serving as the headquarters for the Indiana Guard's Army Air Corps. When America joined World War II , the Indiana Guard was once again federalized. Camp Atterbury was established in 1942, training hundreds of thousands of Soldiers until the war's conclusion.
The United States Army Air Corps leased Stout Field from Indiana for $1 per year during World War II [2] to use as a training base, and to conduct air transport operations. [3] Elements of the Central (later Eastern) Technical Training Command were located there.
The Indiana Guard Reserve is organized pursuant to Indiana Code IC 10-16-8. [3] As of April 10, 2022 the Indiana Guard Reserve was reorganized into a brigade command structure by order of The Indiana Adjutant General. The Indiana National Guard 81st Troop Command will serve as the higher headquarters element for the Indiana Guard Reserve.
DISCOM was released from active federal service in November 2007 and reverted to state control. On September 1, 2008, HHC DISCOM went from a "Support" element to a "Sustainment" element when it was expanded, reorganized, and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 38th Sustainment Brigade.
310th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) (ESC) is an Army Reserve unit subordinate to 377th Theater Sustainment Command headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. The command provides command and control for sustainment units through Alabama, Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland,North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Virginia. 310th ESC provides trained and ready sustainment forces ...
As state militia units, the units in the Indiana Air National Guard are not in the normal United States Air Force chain of command. They are under the jurisdiction of the governor of Indiana though the office of the Indiana Adjutant General unless they are federalized by order of the president of the United States. The Indiana Air National ...