Soldiers with Bravo Battery 1-113th Field Artillery Regiment,30th Armored Brigade Combat Team, set the M109 Paladin on the firing line, as they get ready for live fire at a training area near Ft. Bliss, Texas. The 30th Armored Brigade's eXportable Combat Training Capability (XCTC) exercise has over 4,000 Citizen Soldiers from North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Minnesota, and the country of Moldova. All will hone their combat skills of “Shoot, Move, Communicate, and Sustain” from Aug. 6-28, 2018.

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