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20-Year-Old Killed, 3 Other National Guard Members Injured In Crash At Fort Indiantown Gap
A 20-year-old woman has died in a crash between two military vehicles at Fort Indiantown Gap on Saturday, Oct. 22, the Pennsylvania National Guard told Daily Voice.
Specialist Mackenzie "Mack" L. Shay, 20 of New Castle, was killed in the crash, according to Capt. Travis Mueller.
The three other service members who were hurt were taken to Hershey Medical Center and all have since been released.
Shay was a 92F, Army Petroleum Supply Specialist, assigned to the 28th Infantry Division’s Company G, 128th Brigade Support Battalion.
She was born in Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, and lived in Pittsb…
PA Military Fort Is The Country’s Busiest Training Center, Officials Say
A central Pennsylvania fort is the busiest National Guard training center in the United States, according to an official release by the military.
Fort Indiantown Gap, which covers over 17,000 acres in northern Lebanon and Dauphin counties, is the nation’s top training center for the second year in a row and fifth time in the last seven years, based on the release.
FTIG hosted 113,075 personnel for a total of 727,878 “man-days” of training, over the last fiscal year, the report stated. Man-days are a computation of the number of personnel multiplied by the number of days they trained on po…
