Engineer Brigade Validates with Mobile Training Team.

摘要

Today's nonlinear battlefield is fluid and changes rapidly, requiring Soldiers to adapt quickly. Tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) sometimes change faster than stateside training can support; and equipment may become obsolete before it is even used. As the U.S. Army refines its TTP, adversaries adjust their own TTP to counter ours. Mission success depends on understanding and using the capabilities of the combined arms set available in theater. When Soldiers of the 1014th Engineer Company, Puerto Rico Army National Guard, prepared for deployment, they completed their validation exercise at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. However, their training did not fully address engineer specific mission sets for the route clearance missions they would be conducting. Also, they established their area of operations in Regional Command North and had no unit with which to conduct relief-in-place training to include local TTP before taking control of the area. Consequently, they called upon their future higher headquarters, the 111th Engineer Battalion (Task Force Roughneck) and the 18th Engineer Brigade (Task Force Sword), to develop a plan to fill the gap in training and validate the unit before receiving mission sets.