{"id":25943,"date":"2023-08-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=25943"},"modified":"2023-09-04T06:41:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T06:41:41","slug":"wisconsin-red-arrow-soldiers-complete-xctc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=25943","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin \u2019Red Arrow\u2019 Soldiers Complete XCTC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Wisconsin National Guard Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 127th Infantry Regiment, and the 173rd Brigade Engineer Battalion, 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, coordinate on a live-fire exercise featuring squad movements, reacting to simulated enemy contact and the use of a Bangalore torpedo explosive charge during eXportable Combat Training Center training July 27, 2023, at Fort McCoy, Wis. ( Wisconsin National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Kati Volkman)
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FORT MCCOY, Wis. – The Wisconsin Army National Guard\u2019s 32nd \u201cRed Arrow\u201d Infantry Brigade Combat Team completed eXportable Combat Training Center training to prepare for the more challenging four-week exercise next summer at the Joint Readiness Training Center.<\/p>\n

XCTC is the Army National Guard\u2019s program of record that enables brigade combat teams to achieve the trained platoon readiness necessary to deploy, fight and win battles. The three-week exercise tested the Red Arrow Soldiers\u2019 skills as the brigade prepares for JRTC next year.<\/p>\n

Col. Jeffrey Alston, the Red Arrow\u2019s outgoing commander, prepared the brigade for these training exercises.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis all started three years ago with a focus on individual and crew-level training and has progressed from squad-level last year,\u201d Alston said. \u201cXCTC is the steppingstone to and represents a progression in our training road to war for JRTC.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt XCTC, we focused predominantly on the platoon level in offense, defense and live-fire, giving our teams time to perfect skills for the large-scale combat operations mission the 32nd will undergo at JRTC in 2024,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Command Sgt. Maj. Aaron Johnson observed that XCTC was a time to assess the brigade\u2019s readiness and address shortfalls.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo do what our brigade has to do, we need everyone, every single Soldier, to maximize this time to prepare for JRTC,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cXCTC brought us resources we normally don\u2019t have access to \u2014 a majority of the training areas at McCoy, OPFOR, instrumentation, fire markers, a large team of exercise support staff and facilitators, not to mention many other units of the National Guard supporting to maximize this training event.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sgt. Brandon Cizek, a team leader with Company A, 2nd Battalion, 127th Infantry Regiment, said the most important part of these training exercises is spending time with his Soldiers.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing a team leader, you get that one-on-one time with your Soldiers in a field environment,\u201d Cizek said. \u201cYou get to learn what they think and how they do in different scenarios and really get to know who they are as Soldiers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Command Sgt. Maj. Curtis Patrouille, the Wisconsin Army National Guard\u2019s state command sergeant major, visited with Soldiers throughout the training and encouraged them to seek authentic training.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a training exercise where our Soldiers get a chance to hone their skills as they prepare for JRTC along with their larger federal mission,\u201d Patrouille said. \u201cWith opportunities and training like this, we can truly be the best IBCT in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alston looked back on his time in command of the historic brigade.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a phenomenal brigade,\u201d he said. \u201cIn almost three years of command, I have seen this brigade step up to every mission, training event or task given to it. Our Soldiers are dedicated and our leaders are able to quickly learn and adapt. I have no doubt whatsoever that the 32nd will return from JRTC as the most capable it has ever been.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Wisconsin National Guard Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 127th Infantry Regiment, and the 173rd Brigade Engineer Battalion, 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, coordinate on a live-fire exercise featuring squad movements, reacting to simulated enemy contact and the use of a Bangalore torpedo explosive charge during eXportable Combat Training Center training July 27, 2023, at Fort […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25945,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25943","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\/25943","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=25943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25946,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25943\/revisions\/25946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}