The current Fort Custer Training Center is located south of M-96 and mostly east of the county line at 2501 26th St., Battle Creek, Michigan 49037.

Also during that time, approximately 17,000 troops were trained for the Korean War and Fort Custer served as an induction center for draftees.

Beginning in 1959, Fort Custer served for a decade as part of the North American Air Defense system.

Fort Custer's facilities are used by the Michigan National Guard and other branches of the armed forces (including ROTC students), primarily from Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana.

[6] Fort Custer offers a distance learning center, barracks and dining facilities for visiting units, and plenty of training areas.

Fort Custer is currently being looked at as the location of a proposed Eastern United States missile defense site.

During and immediately following WWII, the Fort Custer Veterans Affairs Hospital served primarily for the in-patient medical care and therapy of amputees.

[12] Battle Creek Unlimited built Fort Custer industrial park containing over ninety businesses which provide over 8,000 jobs.

It was developed on base land in the 1970s and lies between the Fort Custer Military Reserve and W. K. Kellogg Airport (civilian and Air National Guard).

Goods produced include shopping carts, noodles, fiber optic, traffic signals, automotive parts, water purification pumps, and instruments for microscopic study of surgical specimens.

The VA estimates Fort Custer National Cemetery has sufficient space to continue providing full casket gravesites beyond the year 2030.