FORT HOOD, Texas - Units with the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team "Greywolf," 1st Cavalry Division have spent the past year training and preparing for their rotation at National Training Center.
This time, the Greywolf Brigade won't go it alone. Leaving behind several of its own battalions due to their other worldwide missions, the 3rd ABCT will instead take to NTC the 4th Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment from Fort Bliss, Texas, and the 3rd Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment of Fort Riley, Kansas. All together, more than 7,000 Soldiers will take part in the month-long training rotation in April.
The 3rd ABCT has been conducting a series of training exercises for the past year to assess the battalions' efficiency at accomplishing missions and adapting with the brigade's partner units.
"The opportunity that we have right now in 2015 with the communications we have, we are able to bring in other units from the [Army] and link our systems together," said Col. Matthew Van Wagenen, commander of the 3rd ABCT. "This is a large collective exercise we do to bring all of the command posts together and we'll use the Army's architecture to talk digitally to train all of those systems before we get to Fort Irwin."
"I brought my staff and most of the Soldiers that run my headquarters to work through every mission command system that we have," said Lt. Col. Ryan Worthan, commander of the 4-17 Inf. Reg. "I brought two Strykers. They are a part of our 'on the move' capabilities we use to talk with the TOC and the brigade headquarters.
The tactical operations centers could be in different locations and run operations within their units while communicating with other units simultaneously.
The deployment of the 3rd ABCT and its enabler units to the National Training Center will be the first Stryker-Armor task force to take part in a decisive action rotation at NTC, said Van Wagenen
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