Explosives, hand grenade training to be conducted at Camp James A. Garfield

Residents and business owners near Camp James A. Garfield Joint Military Training Center in the Ravenna area may notice an increase in blast noise from the area. Explosives and hand grenades will be used during training conducted Wednesday through Sunday, April 10-14. 

Sounds from the explosions may be heard farther away than what occurs during normal operations. Intermittent explosions and gunfire can be heard frequently from the installation, which hosts training events throughout most of the year.   

Camp James A. Garfield is an Ohio Army National Guard training site in Portage and Trumbull counties consisting of about 21,000 acres, with small arms 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. 

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