Camp Atterbury

Yeah.

Up to the northeast toward Columbus, which is where our hotel was, you've got Camp Atterbury, and part of that base sits inside of Brown County.

There's a lot of dark woods and a lot of open sky in this area of Indiana, and tonight I've got stories about both.

So I wanna first start with May 9th, 2020.

So the lights were what looked like fighting above the sky in Franklin.

Hm.

Then at 4:24 in the morning, the observers at Camp Atterbury said they'd watch one through powerful field glasses.

It was, quote, "Red, white, and blue with a tail heading southwest," and it was climbing.

Today is actually the 106th birthday of the Warrant Officer Corps, so I'm sporting the Warrant Officer mug.

This is 20 years of the walks down at Camp Atterbury, so shout out to our Warrant Officer Corps.

As an aviator, I can tell you they've kept me out of a lot of trouble through the years, but they've probably also gotten me into a little bit of trouble too.

So today, what I wanted to do was bring on a battalion commander as a representative of warfighting readiness for Coffee Talk today.

There's no doubt about that.

And I spent a lot of time around the troops, around the country, from Fort Bragg to March Air Force Base, to Camp Atterbury in Indiana, all over the place.

You know, Bath Ironworks up in Maine, a lot of Navy up there, the Electric Boat Division in Rhode Island, Andrew Hill Systems making unmanned underwater vessels, which are being used in combat now.

You know, the motivation of the military, I think, is the highest that I've seen in my lifetime.

And why was it so important to have this sled track where you all decided to put it? Well, this is a collaboration

between NSWC Crane and Camp Atterbury.

That is about hour and a half north of crane.

Um, we have a very close partnership.

We do a lot of ordinance testing there that is better suited for camp Atterbury than it is for NSWC crane.

So this was a collaboration between the two bases.

And so we were able to find a semi permanent location for the sled track.

And, you know, you saw despair.

I was able to go to Camp Atterbury in Indiana, who, you know, I forget how many thousands that we had there.

And I remember telling my wife, you know, you saw a lot of despair, but I could – if you saw the mother's face they saw you saw a lot of hope too

they were like hey this

It's up there now.

We've got a Max Director Summit coming up in May at Camp Atterbury.

So if you've never lived in Army barracks, we'll put you up.

If you've never eaten Army chow, we'll put you in there.