{"id":131199,"date":"2024-02-29T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=131199"},"modified":"2024-03-02T03:23:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T03:23:56","slug":"nebraska-guard-infantry-trains-on-survival-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=131199","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska Guard Infantry Trains on Survival Tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Soldiers with the Nebraska Army National Guard\u2019s Company B, 2-134th Infantry (Airborne), conduct survival, evasion, resistance and escape training Feb. 3-4, 2024, at the Mead Training Site near Yutan, Nebraska. The 59 Soldiers were trained by six U.S. Air Force instructors from the 55th Operations Support Squadron from Offutt Air Force Base. (U.S. Army National Guard photo courtesy of Staff Sgt. Nicole Havlovic and Capt. Jared Klassen)
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YUTAN, Neb. – Soldiers with the Nebraska Army National Guard\u2019s Company B, 2-134th Infantry (Airborne), conducted survival, evasion, resistance and escape training Feb. 3-4 at the Mead Training Site near Yutan.<\/p>\n

Six U.S Air Force instructors with the 55th Operations Support Squadron, Offutt Air Force Base, trained the 59 Soldiers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIncluding the 55th OSS made a difference in the quality of training provided because they brought a unique type of training to our table,\u201d said Sgt. 1st Class Ben Heimes, Company B readiness noncommissioned officer. \u201cSoldiers were provided with specific tactics on survival and taught how to accomplish the mission of being put into a rescue scenario.\u201d<\/p>\n

The training was intended to focus on arctic environment survival. But as the weather warmed and the snow melted, it shifted to basic cold weather survival.<\/p>\n

Soldiers built different types of shelters, used snares and traps, and procured materials to build fires and produce a smoke signal for air-to-ground recovery. Through the hands-on training, Soldiers learned how to survive and evade in different environments.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe learned how to effectively prepare ourselves for isolating events and plan for a potential rescue operation,\u201d Heimes said. \u201cThis type of training empowers Soldiers with the skills for survival when the unexpected happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is the second recent engagement where SERE specialists from the 55th OSS have teamed with Nebraska National Guard Soldiers to conduct training. In November, the 55th OSS SERE Program conducted hoist proficiency training with Nebraska Army National Guard\u2019s Company G, 2-134th General Support Aviation Battalion, using UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis initial integration with the Nebraska Army National Guard has already opened numerous opportunities for our SERE specialists to integrate into future personnel recovery exercises and events together,\u201d Master Sgt. Clifton Cleveland, 55th OSS SERE program superintendent, said after the November hoist training.<\/p>\n

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Soldiers with the Nebraska Army National Guard\u2019s Company B, 2-134th Infantry (Airborne), conduct survival, evasion, resistance and escape training Feb. 3-4, 2024, at the Mead Training Site near Yutan, Nebraska. The 59 Soldiers were trained by six U.S. Air Force instructors from the 55th Operations Support Squadron from Offutt Air Force Base. (U.S. Army National […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131201,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131202,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131199\/revisions\/131202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}