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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 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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I was stationed at Polk for 5 years.... You begin to LOVE JRTC after a while. It becomes a second home.
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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''ve been to all three. What I didn't like most about NTC is we did not bring our own equipment, but had to draw from the motor pool there. They were older and earlier models of what he had at home station. CMTC (Hohenfels) had the worst weather and most mud. Never really had any opinion on JRTC.
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You guys are going to hate me for this..... Would you believe that I have been on active duty for almost 21 years, in the Reserves and Guard for 5 years, stationed in Germany for two years, and stationed at Fort Bragg for about 15 years total, and I have only been to JRTC once and NTC once? Never even been to Hohenfels! Get this, when I went to NTC, I worked in the SOTF S-3 so I got to stay in the big dome. When I went to JRTC, I went as an observer, and I only went out into the box once for about 2 hours. So to answer your question, I really liked the Starbucks at NTC, and Leesville, LA doesn't have enough stuff to do at night. LOL
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SFC (Join to see)
yes, I do think you lucky. I wish I could say the same. I also have been in for almost 21 years now and have been station at fort Hood, Bamberg, Germany, Korea and Fort Carson. I have been in the box, NTC/ JRTC several times. Hohenfels/ Grafenwohr several time. I was there for eight years. Bragg was my shortest duty staation. Well hope you stay lucky cause most of the time those places were not the best.
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CPT Jacob Swartout
I have one rotation to NTC as BLUFOR. I enjoyed the two years there as OPFOR despite it being so hot. Great training too.
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I was supposed to go to all three but every time I have avoided them by mission change, OBC, budget cuts. Go figure. So really no idea until (knock on wood) I go to Germany next year.
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CPT Jacob Swartout
Imagine going and then the unit transfers back to the states. My former S4 NCOIC is doing that now. He left his family back in the states because it made no sense to ship them there just to ship them back to the US.
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