A chief priority for the Army is to ensure it has the right resources in the right place to support “readiness and modernization.”
For soldiers assigned or deployed to here for training, maintaining that readiness posture often culminates at the post’s vast range complex where units exercise intense, warfighting maneuvers to ensure their combat proficiency on the battlefield.
Leaders there also recognize a possible hindrance to that training should a range have to be shut down as a result of wildland fires.
Not resigned to let that happen, garrison leaders converged at the installation’s emergency operations center for the Fort Hood Wild Land Firefighting ROC Drill on March 2 to coordinate prescribed burn strategies to ensure those ranges stay open.
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