A Stinger team from 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team fires a FIM-92 Stinger at an "Outlaw" drone from a firing point at a Polish Air Force range in Ustka, Poland on the Baltic Sea. Soldiers from across the brigade were conducting a capstone event following a month-long certification course taught by brigade Air Defense Battlefield Management Operators. It marks the first time an armored brigade combat team was able to provide instruction and fire live missiles in order to certify Soldiers as Stinger team operators.
If one were to attend a football game here, close their eyes for a moment and listen to the whistles, the signal calling or the clash of equipment as bodies collide, there would be no clue the game being played was in fact on a foreign gridiron, a Polish gridiron to be exact. That point was driven home last weekend when a group of 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division Soldiers received an invite to attend a Polish League of...
