{"id":17385,"date":"2023-06-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=17385"},"modified":"2023-07-03T06:41:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T06:41:43","slug":"tennessee-military-intelligence-company-completes-validation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=17385","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Military Intelligence Company Completes Validation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"editor-image single\">\n<figure class=\"photo cur-photo\">\n          <span class=\"centered-image\"><br \/>\n            <span class=\"img-container\"><br \/>\n              <a class=\"rich-text-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/api.army.mil\/e2\/c\/images\/2023\/06\/30\/8bcef8b9\/original.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>              <\/a><br \/>\n                          <\/span><br \/>\n          <\/span><figcaption>\n                        <span class=\"image-caption\"><br \/>\n              <span class=\"caption-text\"><br \/>\n                Tennessee\u2019s Military Intelligence Company, Troop D, Regimental Engineering Squadron, 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment, shown June 14, 2023, completed a validation event at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.<br \/>\n                <span class=\"caption-author\"> (Photo Credit: Edgar A. Castro)<\/span><br \/>\n              <\/span><br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/api.army.mil\/e2\/c\/images\/2023\/06\/30\/8bcef8b9\/original.jpg\" title=\"View original\" target=\"_blank\">VIEW ORIGINAL<\/a><br \/>\n            <\/span><br \/>\n          <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn. &#8211; Tennessee\u2019s Military Intelligence Company proved it could effectively gather mission-critical information from the battlefield during a validation event at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>Observer Coach Trainers (OCTs) headquartered at 1st Army out of Fort Stewart, Georgia, conducted the validation of \u201cMICO\u201d \u2014 Troop D, Regimental Engineering Squadron, 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are here to make sure the validation exercise the unit is going through is \u2018train to standard,\u2019\u201d said Sgt. 1st Class Robert McCartney, an OCT. \u201cWe\u2019re here to do what we can to help, and Delta company is doing a really fantastic job. Like any other National Guard or Reserve units, military intelligence units are required to demonstrate they can perform to Army standards on a reoccurring basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MICO has human intelligence collectors, signals collection analyst intelligence collectors, and military intelligence systems maintainers who collect combat information and send it to their higher headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are being certified on our mission-essential tasks that we are supposed to do as an MI company,\u201c said Capt. Clayton Carroll Jr., Delta Troop company commander.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI enjoy information technology work, and this is kind of what it is,\u201d said Spc. George Poole, a military intelligence systems maintainer. During this validation event, he managed an E6 stack, which connects Delta Troop\u2019s computer network to other units via satellite.<\/p>\n<p>In this validation event, role players simulated enemies on the battlefield. Spc. Joshua Cook, a human intelligence collector, interviewed \u201cthe enemy.\u201d Spc. Terri Harris, a signal intelligence collector, gathered information from enemy radios. It was Chief Warrant Officer 2 James Bryant\u2019s job to analyze the data to discern the enemy\u2019s location and course of action.<\/p>\n<p>Military intelligence companies like Delta Troop serve a vital role on the battlefield, gathering and analyzing information on enemy operations. National Guard and Army Reserve units are essential in stateside missions as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring an emergency here at home, our role is to provide technical support as well as generator power,\u201d Carroll said.<\/p>\n<p>The OCTs gave their seal of approval to Delta Troop, proving it had completed each of the tasks required by 1st Army.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalguard.mil\/\" target=\"_blank\">For more National Guard news<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheNationalGuard\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Guard Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usnationalguard\" target=\"_blank\">National Guard Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee\u2019s Military Intelligence Company, Troop D, Regimental Engineering Squadron, 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment, shown June 14, 2023, completed a validation event at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. (Photo Credit: Edgar A. Castro) VIEW ORIGINAL NASHVILLE, Tenn. &#8211; Tennessee\u2019s Military Intelligence Company proved it could effectively gather mission-critical information from the battlefield during a validation event at Fort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17387,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17385","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\/17385","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=17385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17388,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17385\/revisions\/17388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}