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What did you like or dislike about your experience(s) there?
I was stationed at Ft Irwin for 2 yrs as the OPFOR and been to JRTC twice in my career.
I was stationed at Ft Irwin for 2 yrs as the OPFOR and been to JRTC twice in my career.
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I prefer Hohenfels because Gasthaus Zum Hirschen is my favorite restaurant and it is found in Parsberg. 10 minute cab ride.
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I did old school NTC (regimental sized force on force) right before we deployed (summer of 2002) when I was with 3ACR. It was excellent training for what we did in the early stages of OIF1. RSO&I procedures were accurate. So was convoy training and jumping and establishing our base cluster. Once things settled down into the "occupation" mode however, we were pretty much making things up as we went along....
What was even cooler was our rotation was followed by 2ACR, so they had an "Sweet 16" gathering between the ACR regiments.
What was even cooler was our rotation was followed by 2ACR, so they had an "Sweet 16" gathering between the ACR regiments.
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CPT Jacob Swartout
I missed the DCX in 2001 while attending two schools. The entire 4th ID was there and the post grew to 15K in a few weeks. There were other units too that arrived to see the new equipment being tested.
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NTC was not so bad. I loved the food trucks. I did not like JRTC. It was Humid and the town there was pretty small. I have family and the New Orleans area and still don't like LA. I would take NTC any day. Plus Vegas is near buy.
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
Did all three and they all are a unique blend to the Soldierlization of the warfighter experience, Favoriite JRTC.
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SSG Christopher Alderman
I can go either way as I have so many NTC rotations it is not even funny. I have also been an OC/T at NTC a few times. My home station is FT. Polk as an instructor and OC/T. Both have advantages and disadvantages depending on type of training you are doing and who you are on rotation with.
NTC has the open terrain to be able to maneuver more with distance between training villages and stuff. JRTC has the advantage that a lot of the training villages in the box are pretty close together. I would look at NTC as the best place to train for deployments to the Middle East. I would take JRTC as the best place to fight anywhere suck as Europe like they were designed for.
NTC has the open terrain to be able to maneuver more with distance between training villages and stuff. JRTC has the advantage that a lot of the training villages in the box are pretty close together. I would look at NTC as the best place to train for deployments to the Middle East. I would take JRTC as the best place to fight anywhere suck as Europe like they were designed for.
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CPT Jacob Swartout
I enjoyed how close NTC was to Las Vegas. While in the box at night, you could see a distant glow on the far side of the training area and it was Las Vegas lighting up the night skies
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