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Guardsmen refresh on how to clear rooms during drill

Spc. Erin Raymond, left, and Staff Sgt. Lavern Peart, both of the 35th Engineer Brigade, evaluate potential threats in a room during a building clearing exercise during weekend drill. (Missouri National Guard photo)

By Matthew J. Wilson
NT@newstribune.com

Published: Thursday, November 19, 2009 5:51 AM CST

FORT LEONARD WOOD -- Even for a combat medic like Spc. Erin Raymond, knowing how to clear a room is a fundamental soldier task.

"I have to be a soldier before I'm a medic," said Raymond, who lives in St. Robert. "It's important because, even though I am a medic, if I'm put in a situation where one of our members is wounded and I have to help clear a building, I need to know my basic soldiering skills before being a medic.

"Also, if by chance I ever need to go into a building to get a casualty out or provide care, I have to know the proper way to do it without getting myself or any of my other team members injured."

Raymond joined members of her new unit, the Missouri National Guard's Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 35th Engineer Brigade, of Fort Leonard Wood, for some military operations on urbanized terrain training during monthly drill.

"The mission was to clear buildings, practice breaching buildings, movement techniques in an urban environment and clear and secure a village," said Sgt. 1st Class Michael Doty, the unit's readiness and training noncommissioned officer. "I think it went very well for pretty much our first time out here on this particular type of training and the training site."

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Kristy wrote on Nov 19, 2009 2:58 PM:

" Bsnoltth, if there is there one thing you can relax about and not be scared of, they are being trained by the best, rest assured they know exactly what they are doing and how to do it "

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boscoe wrote on Nov 19, 2009 11:52 AM:

" I have a buddy who can easily clear a room just by eating a bean burrito. "

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Bsnoltth wrote on Nov 19, 2009 10:20 AM:

" Maybe it's just that they were in motion when the picture was taken, but I really hope they know how to shoulder their rifles and use their sights if they end up needing to do that and it's not an exercise, for their sakes. The way the soldier on the right is holding her rifle makes me scared for any civvy's that might be in the building she is clearing. "

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