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GOTEMBA, Japan - Combat Logistics Company 36 service members arrived at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, July 11, to begin Exercise Dragon Fire 2014.
Dragon Fire 14 is CLC-36’s annual Battle Skills Training exercise that focuses on improving the individual and collective combat skills of the company’s service members with an emphasis on weapons familiarization training.
“Dragon Fire is a training exercise for my company where we get out there and sharpen our basic combat skills to try and bring the Marines back to the basics in regards to field living, field training and basic rifleman skills,” said Capt. Roderick J. Singleton Jr., CLC-36 commanding officer.
Johnson mentioned that DF14 will focus on increasing CLC-36's ability to function in a combat environment by giving participants a chance to refresh their skills with land navigation, live fire training, patrolling scenarios and other basic combat skills.
Even with a majority of the training occurring after participants arrive at Camp Fuji, special emphasis is placed on the two-day convoy that traverses almost 500 miles through mainland Japan.
Given the small area CLC-36 is able drive in Iwakuni, such extensive training proves to further improve a skill essential for military drivers; conducting convoy operations.
“It’s just like any skill; if you don’t use it, you lose it,” said Singleton. “These Marines have to understand a rest plan, they have to understand what to do with a downed vehicle and how to recover it in real life and not just practice.”
Such a long drive also provides an excellent opportunity for CLC-36 Marines to gain experience behind the wheel in a new environment.
“We don’t get to do extensive convoys very often, Marines don’t get to move the vehicles very much,” said Singleton. “Sometimes, they get out there and they’ll make a couple of loops with two or three vehicles and drive about 25 miles in a day, but they don’t go over 25 kilometers per hour and they’re stopping at every stop sign, so it’s not continuous driving. This is an opportunity to get out and be proficient at their jobs and what they do.”
With DF14 being an annual exercise, some participants return with a different goal in mind.
“I came here last year as a lance corporal and it was really fun, this exercise helped me brush up on all my Marine knowledge,” said Cpl. Arian Villicanagaray, a heavy equipment mechanic with CLC-36 and company guide. “This year, I would like the junior Marines to train correctly, learn from the exercises we’ve been doing and get to know each other by growing and learning with one another.”
| Date Taken: | 07.11.2014 |
| Date Posted: | 07.20.2014 23:15 |
| Story ID: | 136680 |
| Location: | GOTEMBA, SHIZUOKA, JP |
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