Hohenfels

Um, I served in, you know, I ended my career serving in EUCOM.

And, uh, as a tanker, EUCOM is always a good home for us because, um, Hohenfels is, is a great tank range.

And pretty much every tanker, uh, is right now, I just said that, they, they probably had a chill on their, you know, got a chill because everyone knows Hohenfels is a cold place.

Um, [laughs] very cold.

Um, but yeah, I...

You know, like

when you went to Hohenfels, you know, if you got a battalion fighting another battalion, go ahead and have them fight a battalion plus part of a company just to have the Air Force get rid of the extra guys and you're still fighting who you were planning on fighting.

Yeah.

But then it makes the Air Force look like we actually did something.

Well, I'm going to go to my plan B.

So my plan B, and this is what I ended up doing pretty much that whole rotation.

So the way that battalion fought, at least at Hohenfels, is one company is actively engaging.

One company is like a near ready reserve.

Business Insider reports the command is rapidly revising instruction to keep pace with changing unmanned systems, electronic warfare and counter-drone tactics.

Brigadier General Terry Tillis said training at Hohenfels has improved units' ability to integrate drones into combined arms maneuver.

NATO forces in Latvia are also adapting to lessons from Ukraine.

The Wall Street Journal reports Allied units are incorporating drones, dispersed artillery and hardened positions, but commanders acknowledge major gaps remain.

He was kind of trying to work the system to get me in.

And I had orders to Grafenwoehr, I think, or maybe Hohenfels, one of the training battalions.

So I finished ranger school.

I finished airborne school.

But we were in Germany.

We were training at the Hohenfels training area.

We had a little break in between what we called a heavy light rotation training.

And our squadron rotation, we did this rotation through the training center with the 173rd Airborne Brigade out of Vincenza.

The comments come as concerns grow over inventories of long-range missiles and Patriot interceptors after months of US operations against Iran.

Stars and Stripes reports Sabre Junction at Hohenfels training area used roughly 1,900 drones and Ukraine-derived tactics to test soldiers operating under persistent aerial surveillance.

Troops, vehicles and command posts that remained exposed could be detected and targeted within minutes.

The exercise forced units to disperse, conceal movement and adapt command and control practices to a drone-saturated battlefield.

That is the opening image from an Associated Press exclusive on August 30th.

The location was the Joint Multinational Readiness Center near Hohenfels.

The job was not a parade ground raid.

It was to disappear.