Opposing Force Puts Deploying Troops to Test

FORT POLK, LA, UNITED STATES

05.20.2010

Photo by Donna Miles 

Office of the Secretary of Defense Public Affairs           

Army Spc. Kevin Pemberton, a member of the Joint Readiness Training Center's 1st Battalion, 509th Infantry "Geronimo" Regiment, arrives at a May 20 training scenario wearing a suicide vest rigged with five bricks of C4 explosives beneath his Afghan robe. As a member of the center's opposing force, Pemberton and his fellow soldiers at Fort Polk, La., replicate the insurgent tactics deploying troops will encounter in Afghanistan.

• Date Taken: 05.20.2010
• Date Posted: 05.27.2010 10:33
• Photo ID: 283593
• VIRIN: 100527-O-9999M-001
• Resolution: 600x800
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• Location: FORT POLK, LA, US