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FORT STEWART, Ga. – Soldiers of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division performed a team live-fire exercise at Fort Stewart, Ga., 22-23 June.
The training helped build camaraderie within the teams and tested leaders’ abilities to maneuver their Soldiers against the enemy. Live-fire exercises, or LFXs, serve to improve team development for infantry units.
“The most important part of this training is to validate the teams and the team leaders,” said Sgt. Jacob Royals, a squad leader of B Co.
The LFXs serve as a start point for long-term training, a critical step in training for future exercises.
“Team live-fire builds up to squad live-fire, which builds up to platoon and company, and eventually leads up to battalion live-fire,” Royals said.
Infantrymen of B Co. learned from each other, as well as how team leaders will command their Soldiers.
“My Soldiers are doing exceptionally well,” Royals said. “The firing teams are learning how each other works. Both my team leaders are fairly new to the role, but both did very well.”
The LFX is important to validate the teams’ increased readiness and prepare them for future missions.
“Particularly maneuvering and firing is the biggest point to this,” said Sgt. Justin Brown, a team leader of B Co., 1-30th Inf. “Realistically, what we get from this is good points to teach from, good points to learn from, and it is helping us come together as a unit.”
Brown expanded on what he learned from the LFX.
“It teaches me who knows a lot and who knows a little, and how they will react in a combat scenario,” Brown said.
Team members also used the training to learn and gain experience.
“I learned to control my spacing, as well as how efficiently my team can take down the enemy,” said Spc. Ivan Guadalupe, rifleman of B Co. “Me and my team have great camaraderie. If I’m stepping out of my lane in their range of fire, they will tell me.”
Soldiers understood the importance of the training exercise. Guadalupe stated it was “very necessary.”
“You need to train under any and every environment there is in case anything happens down range, or you get deployed,” said Guadalupe.
| Date Taken: | 06.22.2016 |
| Date Posted: | 06.27.2016 18:34 |
| Story ID: | 202593 |
| Location: | FORT STEWART, GA, US |
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