National Training Center

Trailblazer, mentor, patriot—Lt. Gen. Herbert Temple shaped the National Guard’s legacy. A life of service we’ll never forget.

American forces – SOF, M1 Abrams tanks, AH-64 Apache attack helicopters and MLRS batteries – conduct a Joint Forcible Entry Exercise during Operation Dragon Spear at Fort Irwin.

FighterSweep Fans, scenario-based training is a place where you absolutely cannot afford to have any lapses in your attention to detail. It doesn’t matter if you’ve done it one or a thousand times, accidents happen when someone assumes all is in order and perhaps forgoes their checklist discipline. That is how live rounds get mixed […]

A large training exercise for Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldiers in Southern California came to a halt Saturday morning when an infantryman shot an Army Apache helicopter with live rounds. No one was hurt in the incident, but the infantryman’s bullets punctured the JBLM-based helicopter four times and prompted a suspension of the exercise at the […]

“Say again your position?!” The WARLORD flight lead was getting frustrated because the radio on the ground would pop and hiss at inopportune moments, drowning out critical information the JTAC was trying to pass. “I need ordnance NOW!” the JTAC yelled into his radio mic. “Look for our tracers!” “Looking.” The technique Oiler had used with […]