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US and Indian Soldiers Share Battle Drills, Techniques

7th Infantry Division

Sept. 24, 2018 | 0:24

Soldiers of the U.S. Army’s 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, and the Indian army’s 99th Mountain Brigade, demonstrated battle drills of each nation at Chaubattia Military Station, India, Sept. 24, 2018.

The demonstration included movement to contact, and search and destroy operations. This was part of Exercise Yudh Abhyas 18, a bilateral training scenario designed to foster a shared tactical and technical understanding between the partnered military organizations. Capt. Ryan Wallis, commander of B Company, 1-23 Infantry, gives us the details.

“It is important for us to understand how they do their movement to contact or cordon and search because at some point in the future we may be called upon to work together,” said Wallis. “It is also important for us to learn new techniques. We can learn their procedures and incorporate it into our battle drills.”