POTD: National Guard & Reserve Forces in Live-Fire Battle Drills
Photo Of The Day here at The Firearm Blog with U.S Army Soldiers from Active Duty, National Guard, and Reserve forces conducting live-fire battle drills during the 254th Regional Training Institute’s Infantry Advanced Leaders Course 22-02 on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey earlier in 2022. The “drone view” above is pretty unusual but works well in my opinion.
The Advanced Leaders Course is a branch-specific course that provides Soldiers selected for promotion to Staff Sgt. an opportunity to enhance leadership, technical skill, tactical expertise and experience needed to lead squad-size units.
It looks like the weather could have been improved upon, but any day at the shooting range – especially with machine gun training – is better than a day at the office. Don’t you agree?
U.S Army soldiers running with their machine guns on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey.
Photos and captions source: U.S. Air National Guard, Master Sgt. Matt Hecht.
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Besides active duty I also serve in reserve. At that time (70s); all reserve units were support only. Combat units were National Guard.
I remember doing M240B quals there im just glad I dont have to go to NJ anymore....