Training using explosives expected at Camp Garfield this Wednesday and Thursday

Residents and business owners near Camp James A. Garfield Joint Military Training Center in Portage and Trumbull counties may notice an increase in blast noise from the area while explosives are used during training on Wednesday and Thursday.

The Ohio Army National Guard's The 147th Regiment (Regional Training Institute) will be conducting training scenarios specifically designed for soldiers taking the combat engineer course. Explosives training is an important part of military readiness for Army engineers and simulates realistic battle conditions.

The 147th Regiment provides institutional training within assigned career management fields, Army NCOPDS (Noncommissioned Officer Professional Development System), officer candidate school, and warrant officer candidate school missions based on the collective requirements identified by the Army, Army Reserve, and National Guard Bureau.

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 typically runs through about September.

Camp James A. Garfield Joint Military Training Center is an approximately 21,000-acre Ohio Army National Guard training site in Portage and Trumbull counties, with various small arms and machine gun weapons ranges and permanent facilities to support individual and collective training events for both weekend and annual training for Army and other Department of Defense units in the midwestern United States.

This article originally appeared on Record-Courier: Training with explosives expected at Camp Garfield this week