Dynamic battlefront: Fighting styles unite to test various warfighting capabilities at Noble Partner
08-12-2018 09:00 PM
VAZIANI TRAINING AREA, Georgia (Aug. 12, 2018) -- Anyone who's ever played a game of chess knows what it takes to win a match: patience, concentration and a bit of foresight. Knowing the pieces' capabilities and limitations for maximum effectiveness is crucial to checkmate the opponent's king. Simply put, it takes skill.Skill is exactly what Soldiers with 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment and 3rd Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment demonstrated during a combined arms live fire exercise during Noble Partner 18 on August 12 at Vaziani Training Area, Georgia.Instead of rolling in with rooks, bishops and knights, they brought Bradley Fighting Vehicles, M1A2 Abrams battle tanks, Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicles and AH-64 Apache helicopters.The training exercise's goal was to deploy a variety of firepower simultaneously and have a dynamic presence on the battlefield. The units involved practiced interoperability, not only between each other, but also with a platoon of Georgian army BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles with the 4th Mechanized Brigade.
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