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==Current Operations== [[File:CampSwift.jpg|thumb|right|Camp Swift military reservation]] The [[United States Army Corps of Engineers]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://esearch.bastropcad.org/Property/View/50108 |title=Property Details |access-date=2024-01-29 |archive-date=2024-01-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240130005430/https://esearch.bastropcad.org/Property/View/50108 }}</ref> currently owns Camp Swift, but it is managed by the Texas Military Forces headquartered on Camp Mabry in Austin. It serves as a training center for the National and State Guard, active armed forces, law enforcement, [[Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps|JROTC]], and the [[Civil Air Patrol]]. The camp is the primary emergency staging area for [[Central Texas]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Crowell|first1=Ed|title=Camp Swift|journal=Texas Co-op Power|date=December 2014|pages=26, 27}}</ref>, and the primary site for pre-mobilization training for the Texas Army National Guard.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://aec.army.mil/application/files/7615/9369/4200/CampSwift.pdf |title=REPI Program Project Profile Camp Swift |access-date=2024-01-29 |archive-date=2024-01-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240130004852/https://aec.army.mil/application/files/7615/9369/4200/CampSwift.pdf }}</ref> Beginning in 2007, Camp Swift became home to the 136th Combat Arms Training Regiment and Texas National Guard Training Center of Excellence.<ref name="Camp Swift">{{cite web |url=https://tmd.texas.gov/camp-swift |title=Camp Swift |access-date=2024-01-29 |archive-date=2023-11-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231106192735/https://tmd.texas.gov/camp-swift }}</ref> The 136th Regiment conducts military occupational specialty qualification courses, Noncommissioned Officer Education System courses, Officer Candidate School, Warrant Officer Candidate School, and other specialty courses.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://premium.globalsecurity.org/military//agency/army/136rti.htm |title=136th Regiment (Combat Arms) (Regional Training Institute) |access-date=2024-01-29 |archive-date=2024-01-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240130002304/https://premium.globalsecurity.org/military//agency/army/136rti.htm }}</ref> Camp Swift has educational facilities and classrooms, a gas chamber, an airborne drop zone, rifle and pistol ranges, helicopter landing sites and a land navigation course.<ref name="Camp Swift"/>
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