Rio Lobo
The 415th Chemical Brigade, Greenville, SC, hosted RIO LOBO 2000, which is primarily a chemical exercise used to evaluate the smoke and decontamination missions of various Active Army, Army Reserve, and Army National Guard chemical units throughout the United States. Approximately 21,000 soldiers, active, reservists and guardsmen, from 13 states participated in the exercise. The 81st Regional Support Command (RSC) had roughly 11 different Reserve units involved in the exercise. The units were performing their annual training (AT) and worked side-by-side with Active Army and National Guard soldiers.
During the exercise the chemical units performed individual smoke and decontamination missions while being evaluated by a training assessment model (TAM) evaluator. There were Reservists from seven different RSCs participating in this year's exercise. They came from Reserve units as far west as Fort Lewis, Wash.; as far east as Florence, S.C.; as far north as Jamaica, N.Y.; and as far south as Tampa, Fla. On the Army Reserve side of the exercise were five chemical battalions, one quartermaster battalion, and one military police battalion.
Although this was primarily an exercise to evaluate chemical units, quartermaster, medical and military police units supporting the exercise were also evaluated on their job performance. The MPs' overall mission was to support the chemical units by providing perimeter and convoy security when they rolled out to perform their missions. Also participating in RIO LOBO was the 3274th U.S. Army Hospital (USAH) from Fort Bragg, which is unusual for them. As a table of distribution and allowances (TDA) unit, the 3274th usually doesn't deploy to the field. TDA units usually don't deploy or train in the field because they are headquarters-based units. This year various soldiers from the unit were selected to support the exercise.
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