113th MP Company conducts MOUT training

Photo By Staff Sgt. Connie Jones | Soldiers with the 113th Military Police Company, Mississippi Army National Guard, prepare to breach a room during Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) training July 31, 2015 at Camp Shelby, Miss. The 113th MP Company is supporting the 155th Armored Brigade Combat Team during an Exportable Combat Training Capability exercise, which gives units the opportunity to strengthen their individual components to provide trained and organized forces to support Army commitments worldwide. (Mississippi National Guard photo by Sgt. Connie Jones, 102nd Public Affairs Detachment/Released)  

CAMP SHELBY, MS, UNITED STATES

07.31.2015

Story by Sgt. Connie Jones 

102d Public Affairs Detachment

CAMP SHELBY, Miss. – The 113th Military Police Company, Mississippi Army National Guard, conducted Military Operations in Urban Terrain during their Annual Training July 31, 2015, at Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center, near Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

During MOUT training, Soldiers go into a given location and recover dangerous individuals or targeted items, said Spc. Joey A. Sevin, a military policeman with the Brandon-based 113th MP Company.

“We enter and clear buildings, look for a high-valued target, eliminate any threats posed and minimize collateral damage. We’re trying to keep our skills sharp,” said Sevin, of Crystal Springs, Mississippi.

The training is to support the 155th Armored Combat Team during the Exportable Combat Training Capability (XCTC) exercises, said Staff Sgt. Eric Gannon.

“We’re here in support of the 155 in area operations such as convoy security, urban operations, base security, quick reaction force missions,” said Gannon, of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

The XCTC is a brigade field training exercise that supports the Army’s Total Force Policy, which requires all components to provide trained and organized forces to support Army commitments worldwide.

The missions the 113th have been completing and this exposure to brigade-sized training is not like regular annual training, said Gannon.

“This training is different from annual training because we usual occupy at a battalion level and this is an entire brigade training,” said Gannon. “It’s a full broad spectrum of all the moving pieces.”

Though this MOUT training only included the company, it increases the readiness of the Soldiers who may not be used to going in certain areas to retrieve targets so that they can better assist the brigade, said Sevin.

“You’ll have to go find people in places you haven’t really been trained to go and that’s where MOUT training fills that gap,” said Sevin.

Whatever mission they go on, the MPs keep their skill set sharp and current to be as prepared as possible for ever-changing warfare.

“War is always changing; it’s never going to be the same,” said Sevin.

• Date Taken: 07.31.2015
• Date Posted: 08.03.2015 18:39
• Story ID: 172003
• Location: CAMP SHELBY, MS, US