Insights from the Fight Podcast
May 1, 2026 · 56 min · 24 segments
This episode of the "Insights from the Fight" podcast features a discussion with key leaders from the 2nd Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, following their…
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Before we jump into discussing how your rotation went at JRTC, I would like to provide an understanding of how the 2nd Battalion 501st took an operational approach to this mission.
Major Ziller, tell us how your battalion was organized to fight as you got yourselves ready to go into that rotation.
So first I'll just let everyone know, um, although we are currently going through the MBCT, Mobile Brigade Combat Team transition, during our lead-up to JRTC as well as at JRTC, we were actually still a legacy infantry brigade combat team structure.
One significant caveat to that, our brigade commander made the decision to mass certain capabilities with certain battalions, specifically with our ISV fleet as well as our drone systems.
That allowed that battalion to mass as a mobile battalion, and that really hyper-enabled that battalion's mobility in terms of rapid repositioning around JRTC.
Geronimo Battalion, my battalion, was given all the drone systems from across the brigade.
That allowed us to enable our kill chain with, uh, that proliferation of sensors and drive some lessons on that front.
But the lead-up into JRTC, at first, uh, we had a series of CPXs, command post exercises, to validate our C2 systems.
It en- it allowed us, once we got to JRTC, to further integrate our drones and to enable our kill chain so that we could get after some targeting at mass.
We also went down to JRTC a couple months prior for the leader training program, and that allowed our staff and our processes within our staff to be validated.
We had a culminating training exercise here at Fort Bragg to work through our maneuver, work through our systems and processes in a field environment.
Before we jump into discussing how your rotation went at JRTC, I would like to provide an understanding of how the 2nd Battalion 501st took an operational approach to this mission.
Major Ziller, tell us how your battalion was organized to fight as you got yourselves ready to go into that rotation.
So first I'll just let everyone know, um, although we are currently going through the MBCT, Mobile Brigade Combat Team transition, during our lead-up to JRTC as well as at JRTC, we were actually still a legacy infantry brigade combat team structure.
One significant caveat to that, our brigade commander made the decision to mass certain capabilities with certain battalions, specifically with our ISV fleet as well as our drone systems.
That allowed that battalion to mass as a mobile battalion, and that really hyper-enabled that battalion's mobility in terms of rapid repositioning around JRTC.
Geronimo Battalion, my battalion, was given all the drone systems from across the brigade.
That allowed us to enable our kill chain with, uh, that proliferation of sensors and drive some lessons on that front.
But the lead-up into JRTC, at first, uh, we had a series of CPXs, command post exercises, to validate our C2 systems.
It en- it allowed us, once we got to JRTC, to further integrate our drones and to enable our kill chain so that we could get after some targeting at mass.
We also went down to JRTC a couple months prior for the leader training program, and that allowed our staff and our processes within our staff to be validated.
We had a culminating training exercise here at Fort Bragg to work through our maneuver, work through our systems and processes in a field environment.
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