After a late, dark and chaotically loud night in the Camp Lejeune MOUT site with members of the Army’s 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment and the U.S. Marine Corps’ Combat Logistics Regiment 27, the Bold Quest PAO team is packing up and getting ready to return to Norfolk. We’ve seen notional bombs dropped on all kinds of targets. We watched some of the finest troops from 11 nations work their tails off to make sure every bit of testing and assessment needed to be done on multiple combat identification systems was finished.
According to John Miller, Bold Quest 09’s operational lead, more than 1,000 personnel, 20 aircraft, and 80 ground vehicles participated in the event. While the coalition effort won’t end ground-to-air friendly fire incidents, many systems and techniques focused on mitigating them have been put through their paces.
We say there’s no silver bullet. These folks come to these events to get a look at what has military utility and what warrants a future investment in further development and fielding. You could certainly take these technologies individually to a range and determine their accuracy and range, but when you put them in an operational demonstration, that’s where you start to see what their effects on operations actually are.
Look for more photos and videos of yesterday’s distinguished visitors event and last night’s HUGE ground battle here later in the day!
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