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56th SBCT Training

Dec- 4-2008 » Filed Under: 56th SBCT

Rob sent us the following article and photo album from The Philadelphia Inquirer featuring the 56th SBCT as it prepares for deployment.

FORT POLK, La. - Simulated bombs were going off noisily. Smoke grenades were exploding. Blank rifle shots were popping all around.

This was just a training exercise amid the pines of Louisiana, but it felt very real. And for a platoon of Pennsylvania National Guard soldiers headed to Iraq, it was about to teach a lesson.

Sgt. First Class William King jumped from the rear of an armored Stryker vehicle and started to lead his men into the woods to pick up a wounded soldier. Abruptly, an instructor shouted out, "Hey! Hey! Come back here!"


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