Fort Bliss, TX – Soldiers of the 30th Armored Brigade Combat Team’s 230th Brigade Support Battalion and 236th Brigade Engineer Battalion conduct a tactical convoy to their staging area to begin their missions. The operation is part of the 30th Armored Brigade's eXportable Combat Training Capability (XCTC) exercise. XCTC is one of the 30th’s largest exercises in recent history with over 4,000 Citizen-Soldiers from North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Minnesota, and the county of Moldova. They all will hone their combat skills of “Shoot, Move, Communicate and Sustain” in an austere en

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Fort Bliss, TX – Soldiers of the 30th Armored Brigade Combat Team’s 230th Brigade Support Battalion and 236th Brigade Engineer Battalion conduct a tactical convoy to their staging area to begin their missions. The operation is part of the 30th Armored Brigade's eXportable Combat Training Capability (XCTC) exercise. XCTC is one of the 30th’s largest exercises in recent history with over 4,000 Citizen-Soldiers from North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Minnesota, and the county of Moldova. They all will hone their combat skills of “Shoot, Move, Communicate and Sustain” in an austere environment for the next two weeks. ( Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Odaliska Almonte, North Carolina National Guard Public Affairs/Released)

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