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Georgia Army National Guard Soldiers assigned to the Winder-based A Company, 1stBattalion, 121st Infantry Regiment, 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, displayed their tactical prowess and knowledge during a platoon urban attack drill at the Exportable Combat Training Capability (XCTC) Exercise on June 21 at Fort Stewart, Ga.
XCTC is the U.S. Army National Guard program of record that enables brigade combat teams to achieve trained platoons, ready to deploy, fight and win battles throughout the world.
“We want to see how the squads work together to attack an objective,” said Sgt. 1st Class Chase Bagwell, the 1st platoon, platoon sergeant. “We’ve trained on individual and team tactics, now it’s time to show our skills and have the platoon working together
to attack an objective.”
Army field manual 7-8 chapter six section one states, that while operating in urban
areas, the major offensive collective tasks at platoon and squad level are attacking and
clearing buildings. This involves isolating the objective, suppressing the threat,
advancing the assault element, assaulting the building, clearing the building, and
consolidating and reorganizing the force.
With these tasks on hand, the platoon had to utilize individual and team-level tasks that
build to platoon-level execution.
“The time we put into individual and team tasks was paramount in building this platoon
to the level of efficient lethality we will be demonstrating today,” said Bagwell. “I believe
taking our time with those tasks is what will make the difference when we bring the
platoon together to take our objective.”
The observer controller-trainers (OC-Ts) assigned to this situational training exercise
commended A Company on their knowledge and teamwork during the urban platoon
attack lane.
“Our job was to coach and mentor the platoon through this lane to ensure they were
successful,” said Sgt. 1st Class Gregory Henderson, an observer controller-trainer
assigned to the Fort Stewart-based 1st Battalion, 306th Infantry Regiment, 188th
Infantry Brigade. “What we want to focus on is, how they use their decision-making
process to plan infiltration and attacking the objective, what they showed us was a
unique sense of how and when to push, suppress, and infiltrate an area.”
Urban platoon operations are a building block in the Army training model, success at the
squad and platoon level enhances and lessens strain on company and battalion
operations.
“What we’re doing here is essentially giving company and battalion operations freedom
of movement through enemy territory,” said 1st Lt. Timmy Youngs, the 1st platoon,
platoon leader. “When we take enemy territory and secure routes for our operations it
brings us one step closer to mission or operation success. We want our guys to
understand that their piece of the pie is critical to higher headquarters mission success.”
As a step in the full combat spectrum, squad, platoon, company, and battalion exercises
increase our interoperability and the sheer lethality of an organization such as the 48 th
IBCT.
“The way we’re building training in steps has definitely been a benefit to the Soldiers
and the organization.” Said Bagwell. “We’ve gotten the reps to know our role and tasks
and if we’re called to defend home or country I feel confident in the fact that we’ve
trained for sustained success.”
| Date Taken: | 06.21.2022 |
| Date Posted: | 06.22.2022 19:44 |
| Story ID: | 423530 |
| Location: | FORT STEWART, GEORGIA, US |
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