A plane carrying the refugees landed Thursday afternoon at Indianapolis International Airport. The refugees were processed and then boarded buses for the drive to the base.

Indiana is preparing to receive 5,000 Afghan evacuees at Camp Atterbury in the coming weeks, with the first 1,000 set to arrive by this weekend.

Camp Atterbury joins Fort Pickett, Marine Corps Base Quantico and Fort Lee in Virginia; Fort Bliss, Texas; Fort McCoy, Wisconsin; Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico.; and Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey in providing temporary housing and support for up to 50,000 Afghan people.

The Department of Defense had agreed to provide the State Department additional temporary housing and support for special visa applicants as quickly as possible. Camp Atterbury is a civilian and National Guard training post under DOD control.

As a part of a 10-year agreement, the NRA's competitive shooting division will bring national and regional competitions as well as firearms training and safety courses to the facility.

If approved, the solar farm and battery storage equipment would become the first so-called "microgrid" at any National Guard facility in the state.

The Indiana History Center's newest "You Are There" experience is set in a chapel built by Italian prisoners of war in 1943.

The drills are carried out at indoor training centers where the soldiers go through virtual battlefield simulations to test their reactions, with specific tasks for various assignments.

Indiana Adjutant General Guard Maj. Gen. Courtney Carr announced Wednesday that Company A, 2/20th Special Forces Group will be moving to Camp Atterbury.