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10-18-08, 08:12 AM
Urban Terrain Field Exercise; One of the Final Obstacles
10/17/2008 By Lance Cpl.. Jimmy Serena Jr. , Marine Corps Base Quantico
MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. — The Military Operations on Urban Terrain field exercise stood as one of the final obstacles for the officers of Delta Company to negotiate, before graduating The Basic School here.
All newly commissioned Marine lieutenants are sent to this six month program to learn the art and science of being an officer of Marines brings them through this 26-week TBS curriculum of extensive field training and classroom studies on subjects ranging from weapons and tactics to leadership and protocol. Apart from classroom exams, the Marines are also tested in a series of field exercises.
The MOUT field exercise is a seven-day event in where the student officers are observed in many different military operations such as; basic warfighting skills, including communication operations, executing movements, patrolling in the tree-line, establishing a defense, setting up a night-ambush, clearing buildings in a built-up area.
‘‘The MOUT exercise is a great learning tool for these young leaders,” said Capt. Roy Cheeks, Warfighting instructor at The Basic School. ‘‘It allows them to take the lessons they learned in the classroom and apply them on the field.”
For most Delta Company students this final field exercise may be the last time they are be able to polish up on these skills before their Nov. 7 graduation and soon after command Marines in the fleet. Instructors placed a great deal of emphasis on individual actions throughout the exercise, posed the question to the student-officers by the instructors whether they would accept such performances from their own Marines when the time came.
‘‘This field exercise allows us to think and react as if we were actually in combat,” said 2nd Lt. Christopher Miles, TBS student. ‘‘So far it has been a challenge but it’s a challenge that we all are capable of meeting.”
Ellie
10/17/2008 By Lance Cpl.. Jimmy Serena Jr. , Marine Corps Base Quantico
MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. — The Military Operations on Urban Terrain field exercise stood as one of the final obstacles for the officers of Delta Company to negotiate, before graduating The Basic School here.
All newly commissioned Marine lieutenants are sent to this six month program to learn the art and science of being an officer of Marines brings them through this 26-week TBS curriculum of extensive field training and classroom studies on subjects ranging from weapons and tactics to leadership and protocol. Apart from classroom exams, the Marines are also tested in a series of field exercises.
The MOUT field exercise is a seven-day event in where the student officers are observed in many different military operations such as; basic warfighting skills, including communication operations, executing movements, patrolling in the tree-line, establishing a defense, setting up a night-ambush, clearing buildings in a built-up area.
‘‘The MOUT exercise is a great learning tool for these young leaders,” said Capt. Roy Cheeks, Warfighting instructor at The Basic School. ‘‘It allows them to take the lessons they learned in the classroom and apply them on the field.”
For most Delta Company students this final field exercise may be the last time they are be able to polish up on these skills before their Nov. 7 graduation and soon after command Marines in the fleet. Instructors placed a great deal of emphasis on individual actions throughout the exercise, posed the question to the student-officers by the instructors whether they would accept such performances from their own Marines when the time came.
‘‘This field exercise allows us to think and react as if we were actually in combat,” said 2nd Lt. Christopher Miles, TBS student. ‘‘So far it has been a challenge but it’s a challenge that we all are capable of meeting.”
Ellie