Photo By Staff Sgt. Coltin Heller | U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 213th Regional Support Group, Pennsylvania Army National...... read more read more
HARRISBURG, Pa. – Soldiers assigned to the 213th Regional Support Group prepared for Golden Coyote by loading various military vehicles on to rail cars at the Norfolk-Southern rail yard in Harrisburg, Pa., May 21, 2013.
The soldiers will be participating in Golden Coyote, a combined joint exercise held annually in South Dakota, which consists of soldiers from various states, other components of the armed forces as well as participants from other countries.
“We’re loading vehicles on the [rail] cars in support of the operation,” said Sgt. Scott Carsia, combat engineer serving with the 228th Engineer Company, 213th RSG.
Carsia and several Soldiers from the 228th Eng. Company guided each vehicle on to the rail cars and across planks that spanned the gaps between the cars.
“We are doing this methodically to ensure each vehicle is loaded in the proper order and that no one gets injured in the process,” said Carsia, who calls Hazelton, Pa. home.
The 213th RSG soldiers loaded 35 vehicles, such as Humvees, tracked personnel carriers as well as six cargo trailers on to 10 coupled rail cars. The vehicles belong to the 109th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, 28th Military Police Company, 103rd Forward Support Company and 228th Eng. Company.
“The staging of the vehicles took place in two movements,” said Staff Sgt. Stephen Smith, training noncommissioned officer and combat engineer serving with 228th Eng. Company.
“After the vehicles are loaded here, this train will marry up with that one over there,” said 1st Lt. Craig Gower, executive officer for the 228th Eng. Company, motioning to a train of previously loaded vehicles. “That train will then go to Johnstown [Pa.] and link up with another train before heading to South Dakota.”
Once they’ve arrived, the vehicles will be off-loaded, and used by 213th RSG units during the units’ annual training at Golden Coyote to conduct missions and move troops from one area to another.
“We will be training on engineer qualification tactics,” said 1st Sgt. Kirk Crofoot, senior NCO assigned to the 228th Eng. Company. ”We’ll do training on how to detect mines and clear mine fields.”
The engineers will also be conducting weapons training, added the King of Prussia, Pa. native.
“We’ll be doing a real-world mission by demolishing a bridge embankment to prepare it for a new bridge,” he said.
Units from the 213th RSG are slated to conduct various missions during Golden Coyote during the month of June.
| Date Taken: | 05.21.2013 |
| Date Posted: | 05.28.2013 21:36 |
| Story ID: | 107668 |
| Location: | HARRISBURG, PA, US |
| Hometown: | HARRISBURG, PA, US |
| Hometown: | HAZELTON MILLS, PA, US |
| Hometown: | KING OF PRUSSIA, PA, US |
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