CINCU, Romania – Private 1st Class Wesley Slater, a soldier with Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team (CBCT), Idaho Army National Guard, takes up defensive positions July 28, 2016 at the Romanian Land Force Combat Training Center (RLF-CTC) here. Slater and his fellow Soldiers were taking part in a company level situational training exercises (STX) as part of Saber Guardian 16. A STX is a scenario-driven, mission-oriented exercise designed to train on either one collective task or a group of related tasks through practice. It involves a realistic military operation sc


CINCU, Romania – Private 1st Class Wesley Slater, a soldier with Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team (CBCT), Idaho Army National Guard, takes up defensive positions July 28, 2016 at the Romanian Land Force Combat Training Center (RLF-CTC) here. Slater and his fellow Soldiers were taking part in a company level situational training exercises (STX) as part of Saber Guardian 16. A STX is a scenario-driven, mission-oriented exercise designed to train on either one collective task or a group of related tasks through practice. It involves a realistic military operation scenario, and is used for training, evaluation, and sustainment of task proficiency. Saber Guardian is a Romanian and Army Europe-led exercise designed to promote regional stability and security, while strengthening partnership capacity, and fostering trust while improving interoperability between Romania, the , NATO and Partnership for Peace member nations.


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