Recent 2ID Field Training Exercise
Well this is what I have been doing the last couple of weeks.
IMJIN RIVER, South Korea — The 2nd Infantry Division’s new 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Team (1HBCT) completed two weeks of field training Tuesday with hundreds of vehicles and soldiers crossing the Imjin River.
The Warrior Field Training Exercise involved soldiers from 1HBCT and other 2nd ID units and included Tuesday’s river crossing, said 1HBCT commander Col. Mike Feil.
The exercise was a test for the recently reorganized brigade, composed of two task forces based around 1st Battalion, 72nd Armored Regiment and 2nd Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, he said.
“We have had a very beneficial training environment to take advantage of the new organization,†Feil said.
The FTX tested some of the combat team’s new high-tech reconnaissance capabilities, digital information systems and tactical information exchange. They give commanders a better battlefield view of friendly and enemy forces, he said.
We did get some good training out of this and the river crossing exercise was the first time a ROK Army unit made the float bridge for US forces to cross. The prior bridging company the 50th Engineers are being redeployed back to the states as part of the draw down of forces on the peninsula. Hopefully we get to do more training in the future with ROK Army forces because I feel we don’t train nearly enough with them. So hopefully this will be a positive trend for the future.
