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Vehicle I-D: New armored ECM vehicle

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Currently known as Electronic Warfare Tactical Vehicle (EWTV), testing began in September 2018 at Yuma Army Proving Grounds, in Arizona.

In January 2019, testing shifted to Fort Irwin National Training Center, in California.

Testing is being conducted by the U.S. Army 1st Division’s 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team ‘Greywolf’.  The EWTV is based on a MRAP (Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected) MaxxPro Dash.

The new vehicle allows ground forces to intercept and jam electronic communications (electromagnetic spectrum) from a ‘safe’ distance.  It will be a good use for artillery units because it can pin-point the source of electronic sources and then call-for-fire on those sources (the modern version of triangulating radio signals).

It can integrate with existing ECM (Electronic Counter Measures) vehicles like the VROD (Versatile Radio Observation & Direction) and VMAX (VROD Modular Adpative Transmit) systems.

VEHICLE I-D: GIANT R-C TANKS SEEN TEARING-UP WASHINGTON STATE!

Idaho, International

116th Armored Cav NTC, June 2019. Overseas deployment in 2020!

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Video, C Company, 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry Regiment, M1A2 SEP and M2 Bradley live fire (the voice you hear in the video is one of the first female armor platoon leaders in the U.S.):

At the end of May, 2019, the  Idaho Army National Guard’s 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team (which includes personnel from Oregon, Montana and Nevada) deployed more than 3-thousand troops to the U.S. Army’s Fort Irwin National Training Center (NTC) in California.

Idaho Air National Guard’s 124th Fighter Wing also deployed their A-10C Thunderbolt-2s to Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, to provide close air support at NTC.  Even Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) personnel from Brazil joined in.

Video explainer of helicopter ops:

Specialist James Patrick launches a RQ-11 Raven Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV, drone).

Another 1-thousand-plus support troops from several other state militias (Arizona, California, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and Puerto Rico), and several Army Reserve units, joined the 116th Armored Cav.

Specialist Brett Neal on his M1 Abrams based M1150 Assault Breacher.

Video, M1150  Assault Breacher live fire:

11th Cav OpFor ‘surrogate vehicle’ is an M113 dressed up to look ‘Russian’.

The state militias faced off against the U.S. Army’s 11th Cav Opposition Force (OpFor), who provided what’s now called ‘near peer’ threats.  Near peer is a reference to China and Russia.

Even Idaho Air National Guard’s 266th Range Squadron played bad guy, deploying fake 1/1 scale models of ‘enemy’ anti-air vehicles.

The wargame lasted 14 days.  The official report stated that this training is preparation for 116th’s deployment to NATO Germany in Spring 2020.

VEHICLE I-D: M1A2-V2-SEP ABRAMS IDAHO LIVE FIRE, FEBRUARY 2019, preps for NTC

116TH SNAKE RIVER’S 2015 NTC ROTATION

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Vehicle I-D: NTC and the Bradley

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M3A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle during Decisive Action Rotation 20-04 at the National Training Center (NTC), Fort Irwin, California, 08FEB2020.

M2A3 Bradley from 1st Battalion, 163rd Cavalry Regiment, Montana Army National Guard (part of 116th CBCT based in Idaho), NTC 01JUN2019. Oregon Army National Guard photo by Corporal Alisha Grezlik.

Bird’s eye video view of National Training Center (NTC), Fort Irwin, California:

Company B, 1st Battalion, 155th Infantry Regiment, Mississippi Army National Guard during NTC rotation 02JUN2017. Mississippi Army National Guard photo by Specialist Christopher Shannon.

Mech-Infantry storms NTC desert city:

Staff Sergeant Dustin Carter gives you a short video tour of the M2A3 Bradley:

“Fill ‘er up!” 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, refuel their Bradleys during Decisive Action Rotation 16-09, August 2016. U.S. Army photo by Private First Class Jordan Roy.

3rd Platoon, A Company, 3rd Battalion, 116th CBCT, August 2015. Oregon Army National Guard photo by Major W. Chris Clyne.

Bravo Troop, 5th Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Decisive Action Rotation 14-09, August 2014. U.S. Army photo by Specialist Ashley Marble.

U.S. Army photo by Specialist Randis Monroe, Decisive Action Rotation 14-06, April 2014.

MILITIA UH-60L LOOSES WINDSHIELD AT NTC!

VEHICLE ID: KC-10 TIGER STRIPED F/A-18D & A-10C

MISSISSIPPI MILITIA ‘CLEANS UP’ ITS ACT AT NTC!

116TH SNAKE RIVER’S 2015 NTC ROTATION

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Mississippi Militia ‘cleans up’ its act at NTC!

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31 May 2017 (12:50 UTC-07 Tango 06) 10 Khordad 1396/05 Ramadan 1438/06 Yi Si(5th) 4715

Fort Irwin, California, is home to the USA (U.S. Army) National Training Center (NTC).  Many National Guard units from around the country conduct massive Force-on-Force war-game ‘rotations’ there, but that includes real-life environmental war-fighting as well.

Moving Earth to keep it clean.

Currently members of the Illinois, Kansas and Mississippi are in the middle of their ‘fun-in-the-sun’ rotation, and the 223rd Engineer Battalion’s  289th Engineer Company is working hard to make sure the Mojave stays clean:

2017 MILITIA MEMORIAL DAY SHOUT-OUT FROM NTC-FORT IRWIN, OR, STOP SAYING ‘HAPPY’ MEMORIAL DAY!

MAMA’S FRIED CHICKEN! IN HOT AS HELL MOJAVE-LAND NTC?

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Illinois, Kansas & Mississippi Militias 2017 Memorial weekend fun in the sun NTC style!

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Mississippi’s 1st Battalion, 155th Infantry Regiment M2A3/M3A3 Bradleys lined up for fuel 22 MAY 2017, National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California.

The Mississippi National Guard  155th Armored Brigade Combat Team began their 2017 NTC rotation, with help from Illinois and Kansas National Guard (as well as thousands of Regular Army & Air Force personnel), just in time for the Memorial weekend:

Militiamen of Kansas National Guard ground-guide an M60 AVLB (Armored Vehicle Launching Bridge) at NTC, 25 MAY 2017.

Kansas National Guard 137th Infantry Regiment at NTC:

Stop your bitchin’! These Illinois Militia-women gate guards, spotted at NTC, will shoot your sorry ass if you try and cross them!

Mississippi 184th Sustainment Command at NTC:

Private First Class Chadd R. Boland, Illinois Militia, takes part in simulated protester training at NTC, 25 MAY 2017.

Mississippi 367th Maintenance Company at NTC:

Electronic warfare, Mississippi 150th Engineer Battalion at NTC:

Iowa National Guard just finished a three week ‘rotation’ at NTC.

VEHICLE ID: NTC M113 DISGUISED AS BMP

Video: 116TH SNAKE RIVER’S 2015 NTC ROTATION (The last time the 116th went to NTC was in 1998, with yours truly.)

Don’t forget Trump also deployed Mississippi Militia for NATO police ops in Kosovo:  MISSISSIPPI MILITIA DEPLOYS

STOP YOUR BITCHIN’: 1ST MIXED MALE-FEMALE U.S. ARMY INFANTRY UNIT COMPLETES TRAINING!

STOP YOUR BITCHIN’!: USAF INTRODUCES YOU TO THEIR FEMALE SNIPER!

Kit Bashing, Technology

Vehicle I-D : M113 disguised as BMP-2

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Opposing Forces (OpFor) U.S. Army 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment M113s disguised as Soviet/Russian BMPs, Fort Irwin, California, October 2016:

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USA photo, 07OCT2016.

USA photo, 07OCT2016.

 

116th Snake River’s 2015 NTC rotation: The last time the 116th went to NTC was in 1998, with yours truly. 

“THIS IS WHERE ARMOR FIGHTS!” IDAHO NATIONAL GUARD RETURNS TO COLD WAR ERA “TOTAL FORCE” WARFARE TRAINING!: Includes a couple of my crappy photos of NTC in 1998.