{"id":203579,"date":"2024-06-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=203579"},"modified":"2024-06-19T06:35:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T06:35:59","slug":"38th-infantry-division-soldiers-conduct-warfighter-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=203579","title":{"rendered":"38th Infantry Division Soldiers Conduct Warfighter Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Indiana National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Cole Skillman, a 38th Infantry Division battle noncommissioned officer, answers a phone call during the division’s Warfighter Exercise 24-4 at Camp Atterbury near Edinburgh, Indiana, June 15, 2024. Warfighter exercises evaluate Soldier proficiencies as they respond, communicate and develop plans and actions to virtual battlefield scenarios.
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EDINBURGH, Ind. – Approximately 600 National Guard Soldiers with the 38th Infantry Division trained in simulated battlefield scenarios during Warfighter Exercise 24-4.<\/p>\n

Guard members with the division\u2019s headquarters battalion refined their tactics, techniques and procedures during the nine-day exercise at Camp Atterbury in June.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis exercise prepares you like nothing else can,\u201d said Maj. Gen. Dan Degelow, the division\u2019s commanding general. \u201cThis is a learning laboratory. Don\u2019t stop learning, and make your organization better.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the division\u2019s Soldiers, this year\u2019s warfighter exercise represents the next step, a waypoint, as they gear up for their deployment later this year in support of Operation Spartan Shield.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a long journey, but it\u2019s far from over. We have a mission ahead of us,\u201d Degelow said during the unit\u2019s after-action review. \u201cAnd I\u2019m proud of you and your willingness to volunteer your time to the needs of the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

That mission, supporting Spartan Shield, returns many of the unit\u2019s Soldiers, who deployed for the same mission in 2019, to the Middle East hotbed with tensions rising throughout the region.<\/p>\n

In January, an enemy drone attack struck the U.S. base known as Tower 22. In December, Houthi rebels stepped up their attacks on ships sailing in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n

Soldiers of the 38th ID, aka the Cyclone Division, saw parallels to the exercise and their upcoming mission.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is my job to shape, synchronize, and coordinate all the division\u2019s fighting force and bring it decisively against the enemy,\u201d said Lt. Col. Adam Barlow, the division\u2019s chief of operations. \u201cHowever, it would be impossible to do without the incredible team of officers and enlisted Soldiers that enables that fight. Their motivation and willingness to learn and achieve success has been an absolute pleasure to watch over the course of this exercise. We have the best people ready to bring the nation\u2019s premier warfighting force to bear on the modern battlefield.\u201d<\/p>\n

More than 2,000 troops from Indiana and surrounding states contributed to the division\u2019s exercise and helped its Soldiers learn. Those tasks included acting as response cells in the game as higher, adjacent or subordinate units or, in the real world, helping sustain the troops with fuel, water and food.<\/p>\n

All Cyclone Soldiers seemed to grasp the importance of the learning experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor it to be a training exercise, there was a lot of action going on,\u201d said Staff Sgt. Rachel Hoke, a 38th Infantry Division paralegal. \u201cA lot of people communicating really, really well. A lot of learning, a lot of integration and even for myself, being able to see the inside of the exercise, I was able to learn a lot about battle-staff duties.\u201d<\/p>\n

The learning process extended to Soldiers who experienced a warfighter exercise for the first time.<\/p>\n

Warfighter exercises train the command and staff teams in six areas: command and control, movement and maneuver, intelligence, targeting processes, sustainment and protection.
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Sgt. 1st Class Erin Bossen and Staff Sgt. Aaron Edwards contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Indiana National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Cole Skillman, a 38th Infantry Division battle noncommissioned officer, answers a phone call during the division’s Warfighter Exercise 24-4 at Camp Atterbury near Edinburgh, Indiana, June 15, 2024. Warfighter exercises evaluate Soldier proficiencies as they respond, communicate and develop plans and actions to virtual battlefield scenarios. (Photo Credit: Master […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203581,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203579","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\/203579","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=203579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203582,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203579\/revisions\/203582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/203581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}