Using smoke grenades for extra cover, soldiers run across an open space to the target building while under fire from OPFOR soldiers firing from the windows. For their final field exercise on their last day in the field, soldiers of Charlie Company are divided into small squads. Their assignment is to use all the techniques learned in the last two days in an assault on one of the buildings on the CACTIF complex. In this exercise, a group of soldiers role play as an opposing force defending the structure in a simulated fight using chalk rounds in their weapons. The Idaho Army National Guar
Using smoke grenades for extra cover, soldiers run across an open space to the target building while under fire from OPFOR soldiers firing from the windows. For their final field exercise on their last day in the field, soldiers of Charlie Company are divided into small squads. Their assignment is to use all the techniques learned in the last two days in an assault on one of the buildings on the CACTIF complex. In this exercise, a group of soldiers role play as an opposing force defending the structure in a simulated fight using chalk rounds in their weapons. The Idaho Army National Guard’s Charlie Company of the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team, 2-116th Combined Arms Battalion is near the end of its two-week annual training. The last but no less difficult field training assignment is running the gauntlet of the Combined Arms Collective Training Facility, known as the CACTIF, an urban warfare training complex on the Orchard Combat Training Center. The CACTIF complex consists of 4-5 concrete block buildings. The buildings are connected by underground tunnels. Two of the structures have multiple floor levels that include a basement and rooftop. Each floor level is constructed with multiple stairwells, rooms, doors, barriers, and wall openings commonly referred to as “murder holes” from which an adversary could attack an intruder. The complex is designed to be challenging with multiple threats possibilities that demand attention to detail and keen observation skills. Charlie Company soldiers practiced entering the buildings and clearing rooms at the team, squad and platoon levels. Built into the training were scenarios involving wounded soldiers and their evacuation from the complex; opposing force soldiers hidden in places throughout the buildings; and providing security of prisoners.
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