The military in Fort Wayne today

The present establishment

Six flags in the region, three addresses in the city: The standing establishment, as the Northeast Indiana Base Community Council — the volunteer body formed in 2011 to link the region's military and civilian communities — lists it, comprises six organizations in the eleven-county region: the 122nd Fighter Wing (Air National Guard) and the 1st Battalion, 293rd Infantry (Army National Guard) in Fort Wayne; a troop of the 2nd Squadron, 152nd Cavalry (Army National Guard); and three Army Reserve organizations — the headquarters of the 384th Military Police Battalion, an element of the 1st Battalion, 330th Infantry Regiment, and the 221st Ordnance Company. The Army Reserve's Fort Wayne home is the PFC William L. Gillespie U.S. Army Reserve Center at 2233 Nuttman Avenue, named for the Fort Wayne soldier of Company G, 16th Infantry, killed in the Argonne in October 1918 and decorated for extraordinary heroism — his profile is in the People record; the center houses the 384th Military Police Battalion's headquarters, whose soldiers train at Camp Atterbury and have deployed in the rotations the Wars record rosters. The Guard's two addresses are the Cook Road armory for the Army Guard and Baer Field for the Air Guard, whose 122nd completed its return to the F-16 in April 2026 with twenty-one Block 40 aircraft and restored combat certification. The Current chapter carries the establishment's present-day figures and programs forward from here; this chapter's record closes with the standing fact this section documents: Fort Wayne has hosted an American military presence without interruption in kind — garrison, militia, Guard, Reserve, and the defense plants that arm them — from October 1794 to the present day.

Sources:

1. Northeast Indiana Base Community Council (since 2011) — the six regional organizations as listed: 122nd Fighter Wing, 1-293rd Infantry, A/2-152nd Cavalry, 384th MP Battalion HHC, 1/330th Infantry Regiment, 221st Ordnance Company.
2. ACGSI, "William L. Gillespie" — the PFC William L. Gillespie U.S. Army Reserve Center, 2233 Nuttman Avenue, and its namesake's record.
3. U.S. Army Reserve, Year in Photos (2015) — the 384th Military Police Battalion, headquartered at Fort Wayne, in field training at Camp Atterbury.
4. Air National Guard (27 April 2026) — the 122nd's completed F-16 conversion, cross-referenced from the 122nd entry above.