Mounted Operations drives combat readiness at Patriot Forge II

Before Air National Guard civil engineers can build, repair, or sustain infrastructure in a contested environment, they may first have to move themselves, their equipment, and their teams safely through unfamiliar terrain. At Patriot Forge II, the Mounted Operations module prepared them to do just that. Mounted operations was one of four scenario-based training modules that were part of Patriot Forge II, a Prime Base Engineer Emergency Force Region 1 field training exercise held Aug.