Additionally, Camp Blanding serves as a training center for many ROTC units, Army, Navy and Air Force.
Camp Blanding also hosts the Audie Murphy Field Training Exercise where Army ROTC units from more than a dozen Florida, Georgia, and Puerto Rican universities gather to conduct a five-day field problem focusing on small-unit tactics, land navigation, and leadership development every April.
Also, a bombing and strafing target for military aircraft, primarily used by the Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, is located on the southern portion of the post.
[6] The base was a holding center for 343 Japanese, German, and Italian immigrant residents of the United States who were interned as potential security risks by the federal government.
[15] An expeditionary airfield consisting of two gravel runways capable of accommodating C-130 Hercules aircraft was added in the 1970s along with the reactivation of the artillery training range and parachute drop zones.
The Florida Wing of Civil Air Patrol continues to use Camp Blanding for their wing-level summer cadet encampments.
Established in 1990 the Camp Blanding museum and Memorial Park is located immediately outside the main entrance to the installation and is open the public.
The museum is free of charge to enter and contains displays and artifacts from Florida's military history from World War I to the present day.
The outdoor memorial park is self-guided and contains vehicles and aircraft from WWII to the present day along with memorials to all the units which trained at Camp Blanding during WWII, members of the Florida National Guard who died in service, and several cenotaphs for persons who played significant roles in the history of Camp Blanding and the units associated with the installation.
In addition to the American military machinery on display there are several armored vehicles captured during the 1991 Gulf War and Operation Iraqi Freedom, both of which the Florida National Guard was deployed for.