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FORT McCOY, Wisconsin - The U.S. Army Reserve is heading into a direction in which readiness, people and modernization is the complete focus upon success for defending the country and defeating the nations adversaries. To accomplish this, Soldiers provide combat-ready units and personnel across the full spectrum of conflict worldwide. In conjunction with this effort, the Army persistently trains to stay up to date as a new era of warfighters and enemy forces become more technologically focused in their tactics. This calls for a need for enhanced training and readiness against aerial threats. Through the emergence of technology, the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) operator, conducts air reconnaissance by providing a birds-eye view to friendly forces below. The UAS identifies enemy strategies, locations and capabilities while adhering to the Army’s #1 policy of taking care of its people. Though the U.S. Army Reserve has the offensive and defensive skill set with operating drones, Soldiers are learning how to react to the threat of an enemy drone through training.
Phillip Mason and Trevor Licorish, contractors with the U.S. Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command or DEVCOM, are subject matter experts in charge of the Unmanned Aerial Surveillance drone portion of the Combat Support Training Exercise or CSTX. This training scenario was implemented to give Soldiers on Tactical Training Base Freedom a chance to react to a drone within their base of operations. Phillip Mason says that with the world changing, technological advancement is becoming more of a lethal dynamic that today’s warfighter has to adapt to. “The Army has doctrine as to how to react to enemy drones and aerial combat,” said Mason. “Since recent wars have been fought on the ground, it is our priority to train and advise our Soldiers, warfighters and leaders on how to adapt to these situations that are now unmanned threats.”
This training gives an exclusive look as to future capabilities enemy forces are proficient in producing. Without this type of training during peacetime, readiness and modernization will not be fully achieved, and the mission to ensure quality of life for the American people will not be successful. While training for a defensive attack of a UAS drone, using the proper standard operating procedures and doctrine to eventually use this technology increases the lethality within the U.S. Army Reserves. The features and components a UAS drone has is not only capable of reconnaissance, air superiority and overwatch, but is also equipped to converge with multiple UAS systems in order to coordinate a centralized attack on one objective, said Trevor Licorish. “The military needs to implement force protection measures to keep areas of operation safe. Which is why we are helping to produce both defensive and offensive incitement as well as guidance. UAS has built in tracking capabilities and is equipped to use a plethora of modernized technology and artificial intelligence to enhance the abilities of the drones and its lethal dynamic,” He said.
As a test to see how Soldiers would react to a UAS drone, Mason and Licorish flew the drone onto TTB Freedom. This exercise was implemented to not only put stress on the Soldiers , but to subsequently provide guidance for future exercises and real-world missions. The more knowledge and feedback our Soldiers receive on fighting with future technology as well as how to properly defend against it, the more combat ready and efficient our forces will be when Soldiers deploy. The cost effectiveness in procurement, maintenance, training, deployment and logistics could insinuate that all conflicts going forward will be dominated by a form of drone technology. The army serves a vital role in defending America. one way of doing that is through Project Convergence. This project is the Army’s campaign of learning, designed to aggressively advance and integrate Army’s contributions to the Joint Force which could lower the number of lives lost while actively sustaining the Army's readiness.
| Date Taken: | 08.12.2022 |
| Date Posted: | 08.15.2022 10:45 |
| Story ID: | 427194 |
| Location: | FORT MCCOY, WI, US |
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