LibNotSr is a proud life member of the Blackhorse Association, so when I saw the pictures below I couldn’t resist posting them. Allons!

A simulated improvised explosive device explodes during a mass trauma training exercise at Medina Wasl, a training village at the National Training Center on Fort Irwin, Calif. The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment’s new Mechanized Infantry Battalion will be set to use hybrid threat warfare on rotational training units in the near future. Hybrid threat warfare will employ conventional military assets with insurgency operations.

A visually-modified M113 rolls through the High Mojave Desert at the National Training Center on Fort Irwin, Calif. The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment’s visually-modified vehicles will once again be employed during force-on-force combat training. The vehicles will be used as part of hybrid threat warfare which uses both conventional military assets as well as insurgency operations.

Troopers from the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment’s Mechanized Infantry Battalion pose for a group photo at the National Training Center on Fort Irwin, Calif. The MIBN is designed to replicate the enemy of tomorrow which will employ conventional mechanized infantry assets as well as insurgency operations. The MIBN has recently passed validation and will be set to provide force-on-force training against rotational training units in the near future.