Fort Bliss Monitor

Ground attack
178th prepares for Korean deployment

Story and Photos by Staff Sgt. Dave Enders
35th ADA Bde. Public Affairs

A Soldiers from the 178th Maintenance Company trained beyond the planned requirements during the 2nd Battalion, 1st ADA field training exercise, June 7-16.

Company Commander Capt. Tony Walters invited civilian friends to assist in simulated attacks of paintball toting terrorists. Chris Zett, Gene Wolf and Mark Bochnowski, along with Spc. Tim Thompson, comprised the terrorist attack force, which helped the Soldiers train to defend against attack and to take prisoners of war. But the would-be terrorists were only the beginning of the story, which involved several separate scenarios building on one another.

“Capt. Walters established the scenarios based on lessons learned in Operation Iraqi Freedom,” said 1st Lt. James L. Crocker. “We brought civilians out to the field site to make the scenarios more realistic.”

After the last attack, in which several terrorists acted as protestors to draw Soldiers to an ambush at the camp’s entry control point, several Soldiers required medical evacuation due to simulated wounds.

Medics from Headquarters Battery, 2-1 ADA, tended to Soldiers’ simulated wounds and prepared them for medical evacuation as aviators from the 1256 Medical Co. flew to the camp.

The aviators MEDEVACed the 178th Maint. Co. Soldiers to the HHB, 2-1 camp, where more HHB medics trained on MEDEVAC procedures. The Soldiers were then MEDEVACed back to the 178th camp.

“The overall training was outstanding,” concluded Crocker. “The Soldiers were able to refresh themselves on unit defense and MEDEVAC operations.”



www.bliss.army.mil	Published for the Fort Bliss/El Paso, Texas Community	July 1 , 2004

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