High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Waiouru Army Camp is a base of the New Zealand Army in the central North Island near Waiouru.Waiouru is often referred to by soldiers as the home of the army as it houses the army marae and is the base where all New Zealand Army soldiers complete their initial basic training called All Arms Recruit Course (AARC). The Marae (which is located inside the camp housing area) is also the home of Ngati Tumatauenga, literally translated this means 'the people of the God of War' and is the tribe that all NZ Army personnel are inducted into on joining.When the Government needed a training area in the North Island for its Territorial Forces in the 1930s. The Waiouru sheep station was ideal, with vast areas of cheap open land, and with ready road and rail access to all the North Island coastline.