The readiness of today's Army and Army Reserve is critical to national
defense. Army Reserve Installations provide both Active Duty and Army
Reserve Soldiers with the training and support they need to face all manner
of combat situations. This includes live fire exercises and maneuvers on a
wide variety of terrain; basic Soldiering and leadership training; plus
mobilization and demobilization of Army Reserve and Army National Guard
Soldiers. 

 

Fort Dix

Fort Dix is a major training and mobilization center for the Reserve Component Soldiers—the Army Reserve and National Guard. On October 1, 1997, Fort Dix transferred from Forces Command to the U.S. Army Reserve Command.

Fort Dix consists of 31,065 acres of land, of which 13,765 acres are range and impact areas and 14,000 acres are classified as a contiguous maneuver area. This enables Fort Dix to simultaneously support combat, combat support and combat service support training. 

 
U.S. Army Combat Support Training Center (CSTC)

The US Army Combat Support Training Center (CSTC) provides premier pre-mobilization training sites for Combat Support and Combat Service Support units. The CSTC provides training facilities and maneuver space to support technical and tactical training, weapons qualification, classroom instruction, and the capability to conduct collective training for up to brigade-sized units. It also supports joint, multi-component, and interagency training by providing such invaluable training assets as an adaptable, six-mile-long, 360-degree convoy live-fire course, urban training environments, and logistics support bases like the ones being used in the theaters of operations. The CSTC also provides the full complement of standard weapons qualification ranges, a C-17 capable assault landing strip, and an active heliport that can accommodate up to 36 helicopters at a time.

The CSTC encompasses four separate, very diverse, and geographically dispersed DoD installations located in the northern and central part of California. The headquarters at Camp Parks in Dublin, consolidates the base operations, training facilities, and housing assets of Fort Hunter Liggett, Camp Parks, Moffett Field, and B.T. Collins.

Fort Hunter Liggett is the largest Army Reserve installation with more than 160,000 acres of un-encroached mountains, valleys, rivers, plains, and forests that are ideal maneuver areas for today’s brigade-based Army. Camp Parks is strategically located to service more than 250 Reserve component units of more than 20,000 Army Reserve and National Guard Soldiers.    Moffett Field, located in Mountain View, will become home to the new 63rd Regional Readiness and Sustainment Command Headquarters. B.T. Collins, located in Sacramento, is home to the U.S. Army High Tech Training Center. 

   
Fort McCoy

Fort McCoy is a Total Force Training Center with a mission to enhance readiness by supporting training, serving as a Power-Projection Platform for mobilization and providing installation-management expertise.

Soldiers training at Fort McCoy have access to a full spectrum of facilities, ranges, training areas and classrooms that support individual and collective training compatible with environmental standards. The installation also features an air-to-ground impact area and airborne drop zones for both personnel and equipment.

A state-of-the-art Multi-Purpose Training Range permits armor, mechanized infantry and combat aviation units to conduct annual crew qualification. Recent additions to training facilities include an Urban Training Complex, a Combat Pistol Qualification Range, a Modified Record Fire Range and a Multi-Purpose Machine Gun Range.

The Fort McCoy complex is situated on 60,000 acres, 46,000 of which are available for maneuver training. More than 60,000 additional acres are available in neighboring counties through training land-use agreements.