Day: 3/7/2010

  • leading some mech

    March 7, 2010

    By: Second Lieutenant Alex Frank


    After Ranger school I did mechanized leader's course.  I was assigned to a mech unit but found out last week I am being diverted to a stryker unit, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment in Vilseck Germany.  Mechanized means it sports the M2 Bradley armored personnel carrier.  At Mech Leader's we gained some basic familiarization with it.  We learned basic maintenance, how to assemble and disassemble the 25 mm main gun, some basic tactics and gunnery.  The coolest thing we did was this simulator where we...read more