To avoid any delays, Lt. Col. Hector Santiago (right) and Maj. Wilfred Montano, the commander and executive officer respectively for the 1st Battalion, 296th Infantry Regiment of the Puerto Rico National Guard, determine the best of hundreds of possible routes of the approximately 198,000 acres of land in Fort Polk, La., during a visit to his troops on June 2. The 296th will be conducting their Annual Training 2015 in coordination with the 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team from the Louisiana National Guard May 30 – June 13. According Santiago, one of the reasons for his unit to train in Fort Polk is to be able to use weaponry they cannot use in Puerto Rico due to temporary terrain constraints. Some of the weapons scheduled to be used are the .50-caliber Browning machine gun, M120 Mortar System and the BGM-71 Tube-launched Optically-tracked Wire-guided Missile (TOW) among others.
Date Taken: | 06.02.2015 |
Date Posted: | 06.04.2015 21:39 |
Photo ID: | 1974996 |
VIRIN: | 150602-Z-MS497-012 |
Resolution: | 4288x2848 |
Size: | 8.59 MB |
Location: | FORT POLK, LOUISIANA, US |
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