Changing orders: Camp Atterbury explores training opportunities

A decade after Camp Atterbury started prepping soldiers for war, the post is shifting focus to peacetime training.

Missing will be the thousands of soldiers who pass through each year, training and preparing for deployments overseas. Training National Guard members and reservists will remain a top priority.

But the post also will pivot to a new mission focused on doing more with drones and technical training in cyberdefense and also marketing itself as a place for soldiers from across the country to do weeks-long training exercises.

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