The U.S. Army Reserve is training 10,000 soldiers for major combat operations against a near-peer competitor like China and Russia.
The nationwide exercises named “Operation Cold Steel II” will involve intensive heavy weapons live-fire exercises with crew-served machine guns and automatic grenade launchers, systems most of these reservists will not have seen since their basic combat training.
While nowhere near the scope of the 400,000-man Louisiana Maneuvers conducted just prior to the U.S. entry into WWII, given heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the timing is of interest.
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The nationwide exercises named “Operation Cold Steel II” will involve intensive heavy weapons live-fire exercises with crew-served machine guns and automatic grenade launchers, systems most of these reservists will not have seen since their basic combat training.
While nowhere near the scope of the 400,000-man Louisiana Maneuvers conducted just prior to the U.S. entry into WWII, given heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the timing is of interest.
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