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U.S. Armored Troops Practice Operations Without GPS, Comms Systems

April 12 2017

Latvia

U.S. soldiers have just completed a live-fire exercise in Latvia.

Soldiers from Company A, 1st Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo., held a platoon live-fire and react-to-fire exercise on April 9 at the Adazi Military Base in Latvia, reports the Army News Service.

The drill featured four M1 Abrams tanks and included a series of offensive and defensive tasks as well as a mortar platoon providing indirect...

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