{"id":248876,"date":"2024-08-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=248876"},"modified":"2024-08-08T20:17:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T20:17:10","slug":"louisiana-guard-hosts-army-interrogation-team-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=248876","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana Guard Hosts Army Interrogation Team Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n The Louisiana National Guard hosted the third annual Army interrogation team competition featuring 15 teams from across the Active Duty, Reserve and National Guard at the Louisiana National Guard Training Center from July 29 to Aug. 2, 2024.
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PINEVILLE, La. \u2013 Fifteen human intelligence collector teams participated in the third annual Army interrogator team competition, \u201cTranquil Storm,\u201d at the Louisiana National Guard Training Center from July 29 to Aug. 2.<\/p>\n

The multi-component, multi-echelon event challenged intelligence Soldiers in leadership, tactical skills and technical tasks in a simulated large-scale combat environment. It fostered cohesion and esprit de corps while determining the Army\u2019s best interrogation team.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe competition idea came from watching HUMINT Soldiers at exercises and events where they provided training similar to the crawl, walk, run concept and then were evaluated,\u201c said Chief Warrant Officer 3 Juan Trevino, Army National Guard G2X HUMINT functional team lead. \u201cWe needed a way to assess Soldiers\u2019 unit training effectiveness in a competitive environment in the \u2018run\u2019 phase as they are expected to perform in a large-scale combat operation environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 15 teams comprised four collectors, representing all Army components from the U.S. Army Forces Command, Intelligence and Security Command, U.S. Army National Guard and U.S. Army Reserve.<\/p>\n

Before competitors arrived, INSCOM\u2019s Intelligence Training Center held a role player and evaluator academy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn order for us to do our job or train, we have to have personnel to role-play individuals to conduct overt HUMINT activities, debriefings and interrogations,\u201d said Nicholas Bowe, HUMINT senior adviser of operations for I2TC.<\/p>\n

Bowe said the academy prepares role players to play the role and interact with the interrogators.<\/p>\n

Tranquil Storm tested the teams\u2019 HUMINT collection skills for three days on four lanes: Point of Capture, Detainee Collection Point, Division Holding Area and Joint Interrogation Debriefing Center.<\/p>\n

Teams arrived at the capture point via UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and began screening personnel. While interrogating, teams received detainee information from LANG military police, who acted as area security and managed all detainee movement. After completing mass screening, teams rucked a mile and a half to the detainee collection point to further interrogate detainees in a field environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is important to work together and be on the same page because we all have the same end goal: to do well in the competition,\u201d said team leader Staff Sgt. Roy James, a HUMINT collector with the LANG\u2019s 415th Military Intelligence Battalion.<\/p>\n

On Day 2, teams interrogated simulated enemy prisoners of war in a holding area. Each team had two hours for each interrogation and two hours to submit their reports.<\/p>\n

LANG\u2019s Sgt. Ian Chauvin acted as an enemy officer.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of the packets for each character were pretty large and packed full of knowledge. It was not only learning all the information about your character, but also trying to become that person,\u201c Chauvin said. \u201cYou had to act like them and, while being interrogated, change your emotions based on your character.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Day 3, teams supported joint interrogation and debriefing center operations.<\/p>\n

While teams conducted interrogations on the final day,\u00a0LANG leaders and visitors from FORSCOM, the Australian Army, INSCOM, the Department of the Army, the Army National Guard G2 office, I2TC, the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Readiness Command, the Capability Development Integration Directorate and U.S. Army Pacific Command were briefed.<\/p>\n

After placing second the past two years, the LANG\u2019s 415th Military Intelligence Battalion placed first, the 524th Military Intelligence Battalion based in South Korea placed second and the 82nd Airborne Division based at Fort Liberty, North Carolina, placed third.<\/p>\n

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