Installation

The Great Lakes Army Recruiting Battalion, headquartered in Lansing, Michigan, traces its history back to the Detroit Recruiting Battalion established in October of 1964. With the inception of the "all-volunteer" Army in 1973, the Lansing District Recruiting Command was created with 63 counties and the Detroit DRC was realigned to encompass the eight southeastern metropolitan counties of Michigan. The "Outstate" and "Metropolitan" commands approximately split the state's nine million population. DRC's became "Battalions" in 1983. During the early 1990s, USAREC (now USARD) established the Lansi.