MS HR10

Recognizes Camp Shelby's 100th anniversary in 2017, established in 1917 as the largest state-owned training facility in the nation, located in Perry and Forrest Counties near Hattiesburg, Mississippi, encompassing over 134,820 acres.

Camp Shelby was named after Governor Isaac Shelby, the first Governor of Kentucky and Revolutionary War veteran, and was originally selected over Meridian and Biloxi due to advocacy by Dr. Walter W. Crawford and Dr. George McHenry to General Leonard Wood.

Serves as a FORSCOM Mobilization Center and annual training location for National Guard and Reserve units from Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee, supporting battalion-level maneuver training, tank and howitzer training, and equipment storage.

Hosts multiple military units and missions including the 3rd Brigade 87th Division Training Support, the 2nd Battalion 114th Field Artillery, the Navy Seabees, and the Youth Challenge Academy (the state's only military-structured GED and high school diploma program).

Historical significance includes training the Japanese-American 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II, housing the Women's Army Corps, and operating a prisoner of war camp for German Afrika Corps soldiers.