The Camp Ripley cantonment area in 2015, looking north. Warehouse and post-wide service areas are in the forefront and to the left. Billets and troop training areas are on the right and top. In the middle is Miller Army Airfield.

M1 Abrams tanks arrive at Camp Ripley on flatcars, 2015.

Winter operations training at Camp Ripley, ca. 1980.

This image, taken in 1965, illustrates the replacement of tents with aluminum “hutments” (soldiers referred to them as tin huts) in the 1960s. The conversion took five years.

As Commander-in-Chief of the Minnesota National Guard, Governor Orville Freeman inspects his troops during a review and parade, July 1955. In the 1950s and 1960s, such parades were open to the public and typically held on Sunday afternoon of the middle weekend of a two-week annual training period.

After-hours relaxation in Camp Ripley’s Enlisted Service Club, 1958.

Former president Harry Truman speaks to guests in Nelson Hall, the post’s headquarters, in July 1953 while visiting troops from the Missouri National Guard training at Camp Ripley. This was Truman’s second visit: he trained here himself in 1932 as a staff officer with the Missouri National Guard.

Tent city, ca. 1950. In the early years, everyone slept under canvas.

Soldiers of the newly formed 215th Coast Artillery Regiment, Minnesota National Guard, are introduced to the 90mm M-1 anti-aircraft gun during intensified training at Camp Ripley in the summer of 1940.

Moe Jones and Einar Lund of Stillwater’s Howitzer Company, 135th Infantry, during a field inspection at Camp Ripley, 1935.