Soldiers of the 3rd Engineer Battalion, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, fire a Mine Clearing Line Charge to clear a path in a minefield during a Combined Arms Breach exercise Dec. 5 at Fort Hood, Texas. The line charge contains...

Soldiers with the 3rd Engineer Battalion, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, check the Mine Clearing Line Charge launcher on the M1 Assault Breacher Vehicle after firing a simulated charge, Dec. 5 at Fort Hood, Texas. The training...

Soldiers with the 3rd Engineer Battalion, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, run alongside an M2A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle while placing cones to mark a cleared path created in a simulated mine field. The cones served as a bounda...

Two M2A3 Bradleys with the 3rd Engineer Battalion, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, provide security as an M1A2 Abrams tank rolls through the path created in the minefield. Once across, the tank crew maneuvered to a position whe...

Engineers with the 3rd Engineer Battalion, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, use the M1 Assault Breacher Vehicle to fire a Mine Clearing Line Charge across a simulated mine field Dec. 5 at Fort Hood, Texas. Once fired, the simula...

FORTHOOD, Texas - Soldiers assigned to the 3rd Engineer Battalion, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, conducted a Combined Arms Breach exercise Dec. 5 at Fort Hood, Texas, in preparation for their upcoming National Training Center rotation.

During the exercise, engineers' assigned to the unit simulated procedures they follow when crossing a minefield.

Using the M1Assault Breacher Vehicle, Soldiers fired a Mine Clearing Line Charge containing more than 1,700 pounds of C-4 explosives over a simulated minefield to clear a path and allow other vehicles from the unit to safely maneuver through the mine field.