Desert Blast
Desert Blast 01 was an exercise designed to test Engineer units accomplishing engineer missions. During the second weekend in June 2001, the 416th ENCOM based in Darien, Ill. (USAR) deployed to the MANSCEN Battle Simulation Center at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri to test their skills with its downtrace units. Along with the 416th ENCOM headquarters two of the subordinate units' staffs traveled to Fort Leonard Wood to participate in the exercise, the 30th engineer Battalion from Charlotte North Carolina (NCARNG) and the 111th Engineer Group (WVARNG) Saint Albans, WV. As in the real world the ENCOM is spread throughout the depth of the battlefield, so while the ENCOM was physically at FLW, a second brigade of engineers were at home station supporting the exercise. (The 194th Engineer Brigade headquartered in Jackson, TN. and the 416th Engineer Group in Wallbridge, OH.) This required a coordinated effort to establish both internal and external redundant methods of communication. Internal communications were accomplished through radio, telephone, fax, and e-mail. External communications were accomplished through telephone, fax and e-mail.
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