RUKLA, Lithuania – Candidates attending the Reconnaissance and Surveillance Leader’s Course listen as 2nd Lt. Noah Gosswiller, a RSLC instructor 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, explains how to construct and camouflage a sub-surface site Nov. 1. A sub-surface site is a hole in the ground where Soldiers will hide while conducting reconnaissance missions. RSLC standards require the hole to be wide enough to hold three Soldiers and their rucksacks. It normally takes about eight hours to dig and conceal a hole that size. This is the first time the course has been held outside the United Sta


RUKLA, Lithuania – Candidates attending the Reconnaissance and Surveillance Leader’s Course listen as 2nd Lt. Noah Gosswiller, a RSLC instructor 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, explains how to construct and camouflage a sub-surface site Nov. 1. A sub-surface site is a hole in the ground where Soldiers will hide while conducting reconnaissance missions. RSLC standards require the hole to be wide enough to hold three Soldiers and their rucksacks. It normally takes about eight hours to dig and conceal a hole that size. This is the first time the course has been held outside the United States. It is hosted by 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade in Lithuania and features Paratroopers from their unit, as well as soldiers from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Slovakia.


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