Troops maintain skills with radio training
Story and photo by U.S. Army Sgt. Samantha Parks
4th Public Affairs Detachment
U
.S. troops from Company C, 1st Squadron,
38th Cavalry Regiment
conducted radio training at Camp
Cabra Oct. 31.
“We are practicing training on
sending data over high frequency
using the radios that we have in
the company,” said U.S. Army 1st
Lt. Brett Bowdren, signal platoon
leader and a native of Charleston,
S.C.
Bowdren said the training is important because it is an essential
part of the soldiers’ mission.
“When they’re out on missions
and at surveillance sites, [soldiers]
will send pictures back through radio waves back to our TOC [tacti-
PG 8
cal operations center], which will
help us shape the next part of their
mission,” Bowdren said.
U.S. Army Pfc. Johani Londono
Jr., the instructor for the day’s
training and a native of Miami,
said the purpose of long range
surveillance is being able to go
out and pull surveillance and then
send important information back
to the command.
Bowdren said it is important to
have junior soldiers conduct training because it shows the knowledge the younger soldiers have
and that they can teach someone
else. He said Londono did a good
job with the class.
“We like to train within the team,”
Londono said. “Every person should
know their job.”
Londono said he has full con?dence
in his leaders and the knowledge
they have passed on to him.
“They taught me everything I know
about the radios,” he said.
The soldiers conduct regular training
to maintain mission readiness. As a
detachment, Londono said they like
to conduct daily training so that
everyone is constantly refreshing
their memories on any little things
that they may have missed.
“The radio is the most deadly
weapon in the battle?eld and we
make sure we know every aspect of
it,” Londono said.