Photo By Staff Sgt. Candace Mundt | A Soldier with Charlie Company, Task Force 1-28, 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team,...... read more read more
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FORT STEWART, GA – Soldiers of Task Force 1-28, 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division out of Fort Benning, Georgia completed Volunteer Focus, a company-level situational training exercise and combined arms maneuver live-fire exercise (CAMLFX), to validate their readiness April 24 – May 4 at Benning.
“In company live-fire exercises, you have platoons that are not within eyesight,” said Command Sgt. Maj. Craig Erickson, senior enlisted advisor of TF 1-28, about the unique challenge of completing a company-level CAMLFX. “Coordination and communication between platoons and all three maneuver elements is probably the biggest challenge.”
The exercise prepared the company for 48th IBCT’s upcoming eXportable Combat Training Capability (XCTC) rotation scheduled for June at Fort Stewart. The XCTC is a U.S. Army National Guard program which works in coordination with First Army to certify platoon proficiency at a brigade-level.
According to the XCTC website, “XCTC provides an experience similar to a Combat Training Center to Guard Soldiers at home station or at a regional training center, minimizing cost and time away from home and jobs.”
One company commander who completed the exercise said everything from the planning and rehearsal through execution will benefit his company at XCTC.
“The big thing we will take from this is the direct and indirect fires synchronization, and getting used to fire handovers from one platoon to the next,” said Capt. Jeffery Dannemiller, company commander of Charlie Company, TF 1-28 and Cody, Wyoming native.
In addition to certifying their platoons, TF 1-28 also validated the capability of the range they built and used for this exercise.
“We wanted a range on Fort Benning that allowed us to shoot our artillery and utilize our engineers,” said Erickson. “We developed this range where so we can fully run it, coordinate it and fire 24 hours a day.”
“I think it’s a very challenging range,” Erickson continued. “There’s enough targets to where every single infantryman gets to fire.”
Although it was new territory for TF 1-28, both Dannemiller and Erickson were impressed with their Soldiers’ performance on the range.
“It was well rehearsed and executed,” said Erickson. “I think that all the Soldiers did outstanding and learned a lot from it.”
“They did a great job and I’m really proud of them,” Dannemiller added.
| Date Taken: | 05.04.2017 |
| Date Posted: | 05.17.2017 13:33 |
| Story ID: | 234147 |
| Location: | FORT BENNING, GA, US |
| Hometown: | CODY, WY, US |
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