Florence Military Reservation
Florence Military Reservation (FMR) is adjacent to the Town of Florence, part way
between Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona’s two largest metropolitan areas. It provides a
centralized training and mobilization staging area. Florence Military Reservation’s
mission is to provide the facilities needed to train AZARNG units and other National
Guard troops, including firing ranges, maneuver areas, and other activity areas. It serves
as Arizona’s primary training site for individual weapons qualifications. Primary elements
of the mission include the administration of firing ranges and the operation of an
integrated training area for small arms, land navigation, and helicopter training. Florence
Military Reservation also supports the Arizona Regional Training Institute, Officer
Candidate School, Military Occupation Specialty, and Non‐Commissioned Officer (NCO)
Education System courses. Due to the nature of military training activities that occur at
FMR, there are no units based there. The facilities at FMR are adequately operated and
managed by four full‐time personnel on a daily basis, but other operators are present
when units are using the installation.
Florence Military Reservation is a Level V Training Center and serves as the Desert
Training Environment for the AZARNG. A Level V Training Center supports individual and
collective training up to company level. Florence Military Reservation is an important
asset to the AZARNG’s training capabilities because the environment is similar to areas
where troops are deployed, and it also provides realistic training grounds that facilitates
troops’ success in their respective missions. Florence Military Reservation’s training
capabilities include small arms ranges, grenade ranges, machine gun ranges, land
navigation courses, maneuver areas, mine detection lanes, improvised explosive device
(IED) defeat lanes, rock crusher training, drop zones, landing zones, high mobility
multi‐wheeled vehicle (HMMWV) driver training, bivouac, obstacle courses, an MOUT
mock village with 50 buildings, and restricted airspace to test and train unmanned aerial
systems. The installation also offers virtual combat systems in small arms engagement
skills, HMMWV vehicle rollover, and virtual convoy operations training. National Guard
use of FMR occurs primarily during weekend drills and two‐week annual training periods.
Approximately 5,100 National Guard Soldiers train at FMR each year, averaging
29,000 man use days (use by one person for one day) annually.
FMR Mission Footprints
FMR’s overall mission profile reflects the following operational footprint components:
Noise
Safety
Weapon Surface Danger Zones
Explosive Safety Quantity Distance Arcs
Restricted Airspace
Pinal County Joint Land Use Study
Florence Military
Reservation Fast Facts
Size:
18,616 acres
Primary training
area used year-
round – 7,751
acres (5,605 ac.
owned / 2,146 ac.
leased)
Limited use area
leased for 22
days per year –
10,865 acres
Nearest Town:
Level V Training
Center:
Town of Florence
directly south
Desert Training
Environment for
AZARNG
Training Areas:
Small arms
weapons
Tactical urban
combat
Land navigation
Maneuvering
Helicopter flight
Unmanned aerial
systems
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