BCT commander outlines deployment to Afghanistan

By Connie Lee / September 7, 2017 at 1:17 PM
A recent deployment to Afghanistan showed decisive action training lessons need to be "instinctive," according to Col. Larry Burris, commander of the 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division. "The decisive action training the Army is doing now is the right training to do because it provides our soldiers, squads, and platoons the fundamentals to survive on the battlefield," he said to reporters Sept. 6 at the Pentagon. As part of the Resolute Support Mission and Operation Freedom's Sentinel,...

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