76th IBCT Warfighter Training: Ready for the Unknown

Photo By Maj. Christina Shepard | Maj. Kyle Baer leads staff course of action analysis at war fighter training  

INDIANAPOLIS, IN, UNITED STATES

03.26.2016

Story by Maj. Christina Shepard 

76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team

At 1:20 a. m., after starting the day at 5:00 a.m., the staff of the 76th Infantry Brigade Combat (IBCT) Team completed planning for one course of action.
121 Indiana Army National Guard soldiers of the 76th IBCT attended a warfighter training exercise to develop Military Decision Making and Planning (MDMP) skills.
The event was hosted by the 35th Infantry Division in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas at the Mission Training Complex (MTC). The warfighter exercise is not the only training event the brigade will use to train. Over the next 18 months, the brigade will train at Camp Atterbury, Ind., Muscatatuck, Ind., and Fort Knox, Ky. for Exportable Combat Training Capability (XCTC). The following year the brigade will train at the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) in Fort Polk, La.
During the warfighter exercise retired Sergeant Major Thomas Krynicki, 76th IBCT Senior Training Expert told stories of the last time the 76th IBCT trained at JRTC in June 2000. The brigade was validated at JRTC as adequately trained for combat operations, and opened the door to using the National Guard during deployments starting with the brigade’s deployment to Kuwait as a security force.
While no deployments are currently planned for the brigade at this time, neither were there any foreseen when the brigade last trained at JRTC in 2000.
The leaders of the brigade never know what mission they may be face with in the future, whether be a call to combat as in Operation Iraqi Freedom, a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrine, or a state active duty mission as during the historic flooding in Columbus, Ind.

• Date Taken: 03.26.2016
• Date Posted: 03.26.2016 17:29
• Story ID: 193602
• Location: INDIANAPOLIS, IN, US