Arkansas State Area Command (STARC)
The Arkansas Army National Guard State Area Command is headquartered at Camp Joseph T. Robinson in North Little Rock Arkansas. Camp Robinson is also the home of the National Guard Professional Education Center, National Guard Marksmanship Training Unit, Arkansas Regional Training Institute, 87th Troop Command Headquarters and the Camp Robinson Installation Support Unit. 87th Troop Command has Battalion Headquarters in Jonesboro and North Little Rock.
Camp Robinson is one of the finest, best located, and largest state-operated training sites in America. Located at the foothills of the Ozark Mountains in North Little Rock, Arkansas, Camp Robinson provides all the necessary logistics for transportation and simulated combat realism. The facilities at Camp Robinson support a wide variety of military and civilian agencies at the federal, state, and local levels, and are also the headquarters of the Arkansas National Guard.
Camp Robinson is open year-round for training, and is operational fifty (50) weekends per year with the majority of annual training activities conducted from April through August. Camp Robinson has 32-thousand acres suitable for training infantry, engineer, field artillery, signal, ordinance, medical, aviation or transportation units conducting mounted or dismounted exercises with limited track vehicles.
Camp Robinson's colorful history dates back to 1917 and the closing days of World War I. In 1917, the War Department contracted for the construction of a huge new post to be named Camp Pike in honor of the soldier and explorer, Zebulon Pike. On 26 August 1937, the state renamed the post Camp Joseph T. Robinson, in honor of U S Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson from Arkansas.
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