page_title: Fort Custer Training Center
section_title: Current uses
hierarchical_section_title: Fort Custer Training Center / History / Current uses
caption_attribution_description: English: Camp Custer Veterans Administration Hospital-United States Veterans Hospital No. 100 This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 12000282
context_page_description: Fort Custer Training Center, often known simply as Fort Custer, is a federally owned and state-operated Michigan Army National Guard training facility, but is also used by other branches of the armed forces and armed forces from Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. It is one of the most heavily used Midwest training facilities and is used mainly for company level small arms and maintenance training.
  Fort Custer occupies land in both Kalamazoo County, Michigan, to the west and Calhoun County, Michigan, to the east.
  Most Fort facilities are located north or south of M-96 about four miles west of Battle Creek, Michigan, in Calhoun County, and two miles east of Augusta, Michigan, in Kalamazoo County. This locates the Fort about 14 miles east of the town of Kalamazoo, Michigan, and mostly south of M-96, and divided east–west by the Kalamazoo and Calhoun county line that runs north and south.
  The current Fort Custer Training Center is located south of M-96 and mostly east of the county line at 2501 26th St., Battle Creek, Michigan 49037.
  The Battle Creek VA Medical Center is located north of M-96 in northwest Calhoun County at 5500 Armstrong Rd., Battle Creek, Michigan 49037.
context_section_description: Fort Custer's facilities are used by the Michigan National Guard and other branches of the armed forces (including ROTC students), primarily from Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana. The 177th Regiment, Regional Training Institute, Augusta Armory and the Regional Maintenance Training Site are based at Fort Custer. Additionally FBI, the Michigan State Police, and other law enforcement agencies have used the area.
  Fort Custer offers a distance learning center, barracks and dining facilities for visiting units, and plenty of training areas. The small arms ranges are recently upgraded and the maneuver training areas offer a variety of terrain.
  ROTC cadets use Fort Custer for their bi-annual CFTXs (Combined Field Training Exercises). These exercises consist of day and night land navigation, and Situational Tactical Exercise (STX) lanes. Cadets are placed into squads with other cadets 
  from different schools, and graded on their performances.
  Fort Custer is currently being looked at as the location of a proposed Eastern United States missile defense site.
  The U.S. Navy Reserve's Navy Operational Support Center Battle Creek is located in the northeast portion of the facility. It provides administrative, training, and medical support to 270 Michigan and Indiana reserve Sailors in 13 units and is staffed by 14 Full-Time Support Sailors.
caption: BCVA Building
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