Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, conducted day and night live-fire training April 10, 2025, at Fort Cavazos, Texas, using the Army’s most advanced main battle tank—the M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams.
The training emphasized lethality, leader development and combat readiness while testing crews on fueling, maneuvering, targeting and sustaining operations over a 24-hour cycle.
Lt. Col. David C. Smith, commander of 1-9 Cav. Regt., 2nd ABCT, 1st Cav. Div., emphasized the importance of building confident leaders through repetition and complexity, saying, “We owe them experiences like this — where we challenge them with complexity, prepare them through repetition and...
Taken: 04.10.2025 | Video by Eric Franklin