Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center

From its beginnings in 1969 as a 29 acre weekend training site, the Ford Training Center has been hailed as the premier mechanized infantry and armor maneuver training area east of the Mississippi River, providing effective and cost-efficient training facilities for National Guard, Reserve and active component units from every branch of service.
Constructed on 8,500 acres of reclaimed strip-mine land, the Ford Training Center has complete year-round accommodations, to include barracks and quarters for nearly 500 troops, a 400-seat dining hall, a drill hall, and modern learning center for computer simulator training. The site also features live-fire ranges, hardened bivouac sites, a controlled humidity storage complex, complete maintenance facilities for military equipment, engagement skills training center, obstacle course and a 4,200 ft. grass runway.

The facility had been called by a variety of names over the years with one of the most prevelant names being the Western Kentucky Training Site. It was dedicated and formerly named the Kentucky National Guard Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center during ceremonies on October 17, 1997.