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FORT CAVAZOS, TX– The III Armored Corps is preparing to participate in Remagen Ready October 27- November 9, 2023. Remagen Ready will be the largest training exercise conducted on the installation since 2020. Remagen Ready is a blended live and constructive, joint, multi-echelon, division-sized combined arms exercise that includes a contested gap crossing.
The purpose of Remagen Ready is to improve III Armored Corps’ ability to provide lethal combat formations centered around its subordinate divisions’ abilities to fight in a realistic large-scale operations environment anywhere on the globe.
The exercise’s inception and title are a homage to a Word War II operation that was vital to the Allied victory in Europe. In 1945, U.S. Forces with the 9th Armored Division made a daring plan to capture the Ludendorff Bridge crossing the Rhine River. The following 18-day battle is known as the Battle of Remagen.
The capture of the Ludendorff Bridge proved crucial to the success of the Allied Forces over Hilter’s Reich. Commander-in-Chief Dwight D. Eisenhower was able to alter his plans ahead of Operation Plunder to end the war and rapidly moved 5 divisions across the Rhine River into Ruhr, Germany’s industrial heartland. Germany surrendered May 7, 1945.
The Battle of Remagen illustrates how important the ability to master fundamentals is, and that continues to be the case in today’s ever changing and far more modern battlefield. Seventy-eight years later, the III Armored Corps is set to conduct the largest training exercise since 2020, Remagen Ready 24-1.
Remagen Ready is just the beginning of a series of exercises designed to drive continuous improvement to the Gap Crossing Training Center at Fort Cavazos. The center aims to become the premier venue for conducting combined arms division-level gap crossing operations in a live, multi-echelon, multi-domain training environment.
This exercise will aid in demonstrating the III Armored Corps’ ability to shape the deep fight and set conditions for its divisions to navigate the gap obstacles while maintaining operational tempo.
III Armored Corps aims to ensure readiness to deploy, fight, sustain, and win in multi-domain operations, anywhere in the world. Remagen Ready will generate validated divisions for combatant commanders around the globe.
III Armored Corps will conduct a media day on November 3rd, 2023. III Armored Corps Public Affairs will release more information about the exercise and media coverage opportunities soon.
| Date Taken: | 10.24.2023 |
| Date Posted: | 10.26.2023 16:26 |
| Story ID: | 456413 |
| Location: | TX, US |
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