Revista_Tactica_Eng may 2014 | Page 6

inside inside inside inside sumar opportunity to learn something new. It was a challenge, but it was very fun, you feel accomplished when reach the top or rappel down to the bottom. In fact, I think for about 90% of my colleagues this was also the first time they did rock climbing.” Between the main training modules, animated by civic spirit and enthusiasm, the Romanian soldiers together with the American service members, backed by the local community, have conducted maintenance and repair of fences of the educational institutions in the Ciocanesti village. At the middle school they poured the foundation for fence, and at the kindergarten they carved and put in place a wooden fence specific to the Bucovina area. Upon completion of this activity they visited the Ciocanesti Ethnographic Museum and the Museum of Painted Eggs, leitmotifs of local culture and tradition. The second major phase of the training took place in the Rotunda firing range. Here soldiers 17th Mountain Troops Battalion “Dragos Voda” and Marines and sailors with Black Sea Rotational Force 14 from 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment conducted live fire exercises, tactical firings and tactical training exercises in the field, as well as planning activities, combined command and control integration. First to start the exercises were the Romanian soldiers with a defense application, followed by U.S. Marines with an assault application. Following a hypothetical scenario, the Mountain Troop and U.S. Marines trained practicing defense and attack of a foothold, and targeted organization of the fire, layout and mask of the attack, and 6 revista tactica mai 2014