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CAMP SHELBY, Miss. – A M2A3 Bradley Infantry fighting vehicle breaks down in a combat zone. The vehicle must be recovered in order to be repaired. A team of Soldiers arrives and just as they prepare to hook the vehicle up to the M88A1 Hercules recovery vehicle, they are greeted with a rocket-propelled grenade followed by a shower of bullets. Do you stop to devise a plan or do you fire back?
The correct answer: train for that very scenario.
Company B, 106th Support Battalion, 155th Armored Brigade Combat Team, Mississippi Army National Guard, conducted deliberate vehicle recovery training with the support of U.S. Army Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, from Fort Hood, Texas, Aug. 8, 2015, at Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center, near Hattiesburg, Miss.
The Soldiers were to recovery a tracked vehicle, while completing a few different tasks within the setting, said Chief Warrant Officer 3 Behanzin B. Bowen, the battalion maintenance technician for U.S. Army's 2nd Battalion, 410th Regiment, an observer/coach/trainer.
“Throughout the objective, they were required to perform battle damage assessment and repairs, evaluate and evacuate the casualty, react to (improvised explosive devices), react to direct fire, reconsolidate and reorganize at a different location,” said Bowen, of Panama City, Panama.
All of this occurs very quickly, even when under fire.
The Soldiers with the 1-12th CAV are partnering with the 155th ABCT in a force-on-force engagement while the observer coach/trainers from the Camp Shelby-based 177th Armored Brigade mentor and evaluate the group as they conduct the vehicle recovery training as an Exportable Combat Training Capability (XCTC) event, said Bowen.
The XCTC exercises have helped increase unit cohesion, which will benefit the Soldiers when faced with real world combat situations, said Sgt. Joe L. Thompson, of Columbia, Miss., a noncommissioned officer with Company B, 106th Support Battalion.
Along with putting units on the same page, the XCTC’s total force training benefits include increased individual Soldier and collective battle staff proficiency, standard operating procedure exchanges and stronger cross component relationships.
| Date Taken: | 08.02.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 08.02.2015 18:24 |
| Story ID: | 171884 |
| Location: | CAMP SHELBY, MS, US |
| Web Views: | 352 |
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