FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Camp Shelby, Mississippi ~ 17 FEB 2026

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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Road Trip: Camp Shelby, Mississippi

Encompassing more than 134,820 acres, Camp Shelby, Mississippi is the largest state-owned and operated field training center in the United States. It is a training ground for the Abrams M1 Tank, Paladin Howitzers and home to the 3rd Brigade 87th Division Training Support. Camp Shelby serves as a training site for National Guardsmen and Reservists from throughout the country hosting as many as 100,000 personnel annually.

Camp Shelby was federalized as a FORSCOM Mobilization Center on June 6, 2004. Since then, several Regimental or Brigade Combat Teams have mobilized through Camp Shelby including the 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment (Tennessee Army National Guard); the 155th Heavy Brigade Combat Team (MS ARNG); the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division (PA ARNG); the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division (PA ARNG) ; the 53rd Brigade Combat Team (FL ARNG); the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division (MN ARNG); the 41st Brigade Combat Team (OR ARNG); the 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (LA ARNG); the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team (ID ARNG), the 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (NY ARNG), and the 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (GA ARNG).

U.S. Navy Seabee units homeported or mobilized from the Naval Construction Battalion Center in Gulfport, Mississippi utilize Camp Shelby as the site for their Field Training Exercises (FTX).

Camp Shelby is also home to the Youth Challenge Academy (a military structured GED and State High School diploma program established in 1994 to aid Mississippi High school dropouts, ages 16 to 18, designed and operated by the National Guard Bureau).

In mid-2007, the Air National Guard opened a new combat training runway at Camp Shelby. The 210-acre (0.8 km2) Shelby Auxiliary Field One is one of only two facilities in the world designed for C-17 Globemaster III short-field landing training. It was constructed to meet Air Force C-17 training requirements.

Contingency Operating Location 3 at Camp Shelby is used for Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps field training.

Learn More About Camp Shelby HERE!!

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[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

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for your service!

[PROCON]

WOO-HOO, it's Road Trip time again, thanks again, Lauren!

[radu]

Howdy, lauren. *HUGZ*

I hope you aren’t working as late this evening as you did last week.

[luvie]

~ Road Trip: Camp Shelby, Mississippi ~

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[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening and thank you radu!

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy PROCON, great to see ya!

[laurenmarlowe]

Hope you are doing well radu!

Actually had a day off today, federal holiday. Good thing too, a bit under the weather dealing with a nasty case of sciatica. Makes me want to scream.

Gonna go hit the hay soon.

*HUGS*

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy and thank you luvie!

*HUGS*

[luvie]

Hi, lauren! You’re very welcome. Did you enjoy our lovely summer day today? 🤣

[laurenmarlowe]

Indeed, a very pleasant day outside today!

[radu]

Ah, cool! I didn’t know you got today off. Sounds like the timing was good. Ouch! I pretty much live with it all the time - some days better than others - so you have my sympathies. I hope it calms down the rest of the week.

All’s well enough here. I’ll be enjoying a nice week ahead with our little taste of spring. It ends Saturday. :-(

[luvie]

I’m always waiting for the other shoe to drop, weatherwise. LOL!

[luvie]

I had a bout of that when we were visiting the kids last time, and it was so bad I did scream. LOL! It was awful! I hope you have something to make it go away!

[E.G.C.]

A very pleasant good Tuesday morning and ((HUGS)) to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your service to our country and thanks Lauren for today's road trip.

Yesterday at Comanche Lake:

While typing this message, our internet went down for a few seconds. It's up now. We'll see how it goes.

How's everyone doing this morning?

[radu]

Howdy, E.G.C. ((HUGZ))

Gizmo’s eyes were wide along with his smile. He must have had a grand time enjoying the beautiful weather yesterday.

I hope your internet behaves the rest of the night. Glitches are frustrating.

[E.G.C.]

Yes they sure are. So far so good though.

We will do Chisolm Trail Park later today.

[miele man]

In the late ‘70s, my Kentucky National Guard aviation unit (Huey medevac) pulled a two week summer camp at Shelby. If I remember rightly, our pilots conducted 77 actual medevac missions. I was in flight operations. In addition to the heat and humidity, the mosquitoes were so large they needed air traffic controllers. Brutal critters for sure.

[radu]

Glad to hear it. Maybe that will be the only one for a long while.

Have a great time at Chisolm Trail Park. If the weather’s as pretty as yesterday, I’m sure you will.