Students take part in Commando Warrior training exercise

In this week's Touching Bases report, we look at sustainment training with members of the 736th Security Forces Squadron Commando Warrior Flight.

It's training that military members specifically defenders, undergo. The purpose for the exercise is to provide realistic training scenarios to the battlefield defenders that could be deploying in adverse areas and require specific training.  Commando Warrior is of extremely high value and impact.  Master Sergeant Steven Lugo Velez is the flight chief for Commando Warrior and oversees all operations in regards to students and cadres.

"Right now we have a field training exercise where the students are taking over the forward operating base (FOB) and kea key environmental area (KEA) ensuring that they have the safety as well as the stability to perform future mission planning as well as mission execution throughout the remainder of the FTX," he said.

The 12-hour field training exercise took place on Andersen Air Force Base, which is home to the Pacific Regional Training Center, which operates the Commando Warrior sustainment training with members of the 736th Security Forces Squadron Commando Warrior Flight.

He said, "They will continuously do different scenarios throughout the day that will give them further ability to offer to operate in a local area."

The sustainment training is divided into four tiers and incorporates both mounted and dismounted, and urban operations to provide all levels of instruction to prepare front-line defenders from the general pacific region to support home station security and to support contingency missions for future deployments.

"Overall their performance has been stellar. They came here from multiple locations, they mesh as a team, and now they are going to be doing their field training exercise as a team and pushing out further," he said.

The  goal for the field training exercise?

"Develop defenders that are gonna be able to survive and operate within the local AOR, essentially the area of responsibility for the Indo-Pacom. This gives us the ability as defenders to know their capabilities as well as know how to approach different scenarios when tasked with them," he said.

The bottom line?

"We train to a standard right? We don't train to a time. The students until they get it right, they don't leave here," he said.