WEST CAMP RAPID, S.D. - Soldiers from Kansas Army National Guard's 137th Transportation Company, Kansas Army Reserve's 129th Transportation Company and 821st Transportation Battalion came together to participate in the military operations in urban terrain training lane during the Golden Coyote training exercise, June 13, West Camp Rapid, S.D.
Throughout the training lane Soldiers learn squad level tactics like navigating rough terrain, clearing a room, securing high value targets and medical evacuation.
"The purpose of this lane is to get units into small squad elements. They experience realistic scenarios, such as react to an ambush while navigating rough terrain on foot patrol," said Officer Candidate Tyler Gregor, South Dakota's Army National Guard 196th Regional Training Institute. "Our goal is to get Soldiers to react while under a stressful situation."
To create a stressful environment for the Soldiers, the training lane has an opposing force that role-play a friendly and enemy civilian presence. Through the use of artillery simulators and paint ball guns.
"Using paint ball guns introduces a more realistic scenario as best as we can," said Gregor. "Soldiers have to take cover, monitor their ammunition and perform weapon clearing procedures, if needed."
Gregor said the emphases of this training lane is communication, squad tactics, react to contact while on foot and making decisions while under stress in multiple types of missions.
"There are four missions within the lanes the first is react to an ambush, focusing on knowing when to withdraw," said Gregor. "Second is clearing a weapons cache in an improvised explosive device factory; third is a foot patrol to find a high value target and securing that target."
This training lane offers opportunities some units would not have otherwise.
"In this lane Soldiers are receiving more infantry-styled training in units that wouldn't normally have the opportunity to receive training like this," said Gregor. "So if they ever get in a real world combat situation they will have a general knowledge on how to operate."
The Golden Coyote training exercise provides relevant training opportunities in support of overseas contingency operations and homeland defense. Service members train on both individual and collective tasks to help with combat readiness.
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