A barrage of machine gun fire filled the air as Fort Carson soldiers attacked a trench dug into an open field.
Shielded by a low rise, the machine gunners fired on an enemy hidden below ground. Then abandoning the natural cover, soldiers ran across the open field bordered by forest and up to the mouth of the trench.
“We just took it by force, with two men going down barrels up,” said Sgt. Myles Scrofne, with the 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment.
In other scenarios, Scrofne’s platoon has practiced throwing hand grenades over the side of a trench.
The war games hosted at the Joint Readiness Training Center in Louisiana where Fort Carson soldiers spent several weeks this fall are aimed at applying lessons learned in Ukraine and other conflict zones to future warfighting challenges the United States might face.
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Shielded by a low rise, the machine gunners fired on an enemy hidden below ground. Then abandoning the natural cover, soldiers ran across the open field bordered by forest and up to the mouth of the trench.
“We just took it by force, with two men going down barrels up,” said Sgt. Myles Scrofne, with the 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment.
In other scenarios, Scrofne’s platoon has practiced throwing hand grenades over the side of a trench.
The war games hosted at the Joint Readiness Training Center in Louisiana where Fort Carson soldiers spent several weeks this fall are aimed at applying lessons learned in Ukraine and other conflict zones to future warfighting challenges the United States might face.
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In the trenches: Fort Carson troops train for large-scale warfare in the woods of Louisiana
A barrage of machine gun fire filled the air as Fort Carson soldiers attacked a trench dug into an open field. Shielded by a low rise, the
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