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New West Point training gives seniors 'deployment' Cadets learn to adapt during battle
Submitted by Fred on Wed, 08/12/2009 - 4:23pm.
WEST POINT — Easy-grinning Connor Cleary takes the wheel of the lead Humvee.
"I like driving," says the 21-year-old from Florence, S.C. He got his license on his free time. That makes him a real asset to his Army platoon. It also makes him a target on this patrol.
Just after 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Cleary takes his squad up a narrow hillside pass, flanked by woods. The team aims its guns in all directions, like compass points.
Their current mission: Search for improvised explosive devices along this remote roadway off Route 293.
Army brass at the U.S. Military Academy call this Cadet Leader Development Training. It's a new program designed to better prepare West Point's senior class for war.
The goal is to expose cadets to stressful scenarios and force them to make solid decisions, on the fly, over a three-week "deployment" on West Point property.
"They've been learning military science in the classroom," said Lt. Col. Christopher Kidd, deputy director of West Point's Department of Military Instruction. "Now they actually execute it, full-speed." Continue reading
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