LANG, MNG war-fighter exercise

PINEVILLE, La. – The Louisiana Army National Guard’s 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team sent more than 100 Soldiers - along with the Tupelo-based Mississippi Army National Guard’s 155th Armored Brigade Combat Team - to participate in Warfighter Exercise 23-2 at Camp Atterbury, Ind. Oct. 25-Nov. 15. War-fighter exercises test division elements across the US and form teams capable of working and deploying together. They provide virtual battlefield scenarios that test a unit’s ability to coordinate and communicate in functional skill areas such as command and control, movement and maneuver, intelligence, targeting processes, sustainment and protection. The exercises bring units together from all over the states to work and train together” said Sgt. Maj. Clinton Ainsworth, the Lafayette-based brigade operations sergeant major. Training together "builds a team that is better equipped to work together once downrange.” Additional units participating included Alaska’s 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, California ANG’s 40th Infantry Division, Kentucky ANG’s 138th Field Artillery Brigade, Minnesota ANG’s 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team and the Missouri ANG’s 35th Combat Aviation Brigade. The exercise provided opportunities for units to "familiarize and grow" war-fighting roles by operating in simulated large-scale combat operations, said Lt. Col. Nick Acosta, 256th IBCT executive officer. “This environment allows the staff to ... fine-tune the brigade’s (SOPs) for each war-fighting function.” The last few years have been busy for the 256th. They responded to COVID-19 relief efforts across the state, multiple hurricanes, an ice storm, overseas deployment to support Operations Inherent Resolve and Spartan Shield and a rotation supporting the SW border mission in Texas. (LANG 11/29/22) Louisiana Guard Tiger Brigade Tested in Warfighter Exercise > National Guard > Guard News - The National Guard