Light infantry leaders assault Fort Pickett training village – July 25, 2013

Infantrymen enrolled in the Fort Pickett-based 183rd Regiment, Regional Training Institute’s Light Leaders Course conduct their final training exercise June 25, 2013, air assaulting into the Military Operations in Urban Terrain site with help from the Sandston-based 2nd Battalion, 224th Aviation Regiment. Of the 13 Soldiers enrolled in the course, 11 hail from the Pennsylvania National Guard’s 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division, while the remaining two Soldiers hail from the Virginia National Guard. Light Leaders Course is a two-week course designed to increase the effectiveness of junior infantry leaders as small unit infantry leaders through field training, weapons familiarization, land navigation and training on the combat operations orders process.