Pfc. Jaron Charley, a truck driver with Echo Company, 29th Brigade Support Battalion from the Arizona National Guard, wears a mock bomb vest while role-playing as an insurgent during an air assault exercise for soldiers from Bravo Company, 1-158th Infantry Battalion here, Nov. 19. The training consisted of an air assault mission where the soldiers egress from a UH-60 Black Hawk, moving on foot to engage with an enemy target and clear a building suspected of housing weapons and contraband. “The skills these soldiers acquire are perishable,” said Staff Sgt. Benjamin Esser, the mortar section sergeant and training non-commissioned officer for B Company. “If the soldiers do not continually train, they will lose those skills.” The battalion is preparing for their second deployment to Afghanistan in 2013.
Sgt. Lauren Twigg
Taken on 19 November 2011
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