Wednesday, July 01, 2009

3rd Brigade Leaves For Desert Training

3,500 soldiers are headed to the California desert for one month of intense training

Five days of flights started today, shipping the soldiers to the National Training Center at Ft. Irwin.

We were there as roughly 100soldiers stacked their bags. It looked like a sand bag wall of camouflage ruck sacks and duffel bags. The soldiers will head to the desert to endure temperatures well over 100 degrees, and weeks of training crammed into one month.

One Captain told us today, one day of training at NTC equals seven days of work in Iraq because so much training is crammed into a short amount of time. It’s exhausting but soldiers say they need it to be prepared for the upcoming deployment.

Check out our video from the bag drop……….. and listen to the soldiers explain NTC and say some last minute goodbyes to their families.