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TAPA, Estonia. – U.S. Army paratroopers ended their field-training here with a live-fire training exercise June 12.
The training exercise was a culmination event held after a series of training lanes for the soldiers of Company C, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade who have been training in Estonia since late April.
“They will come over the hill and set up a support by fire and then hit these three objectives and a total of 28 targets,” said U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Cory Plunk, platoon sergeant for 1st Platoon, Company C, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment.
The platoon split into squads to provide cover fire, while another squad attacked the main objective, a small mock village, with the necessary amount of firepower.
“We were able to work on joint fires integration, with their mortars and artillery and then troops on the ground, with explosive and ballistic breaching with their engineers,” said U.S. Army Capt. Dwayne Steppe, commander for Company C. “It’s exactly what we came here to do, and we showed that it can work.”
The training day started with several practice rounds using blank ammunition.
“I think for the first iteration we did extremely well,” said Spc. James Hodgkins, a member of Company C. “I think there were hiccups here and there, but that’s what training is for. We will come back out and set up the scenario again and run through it until we get it right.”
Approximately 600 paratroopers from the brigade are in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, as part of an unscheduled land-forces exercise to demonstrate commitment to NATO obligations and sustain interoperability with allied forces.
| Date Taken: | 06.12.2014 |
| Date Posted: | 06.17.2014 05:52 |
| Story ID: | 133325 |
| Location: | TAPA, HARJUMAA, EE |
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