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English: K200 APC of South Korea. SUWON AIR BASE – They might have been sleep-deprived and drenched in mud and sweat, but Soldiers from the 6th Battalion, 52nd Air Defense Artillery Battalion concluded a week-long field training exercise with a renewed sense of pride and confidence in their equipment, their comrades-in-arms, and most importantly themselves, officials said.

The comprehensive air defense artillery field training exercise, which took place from May 2-6 across the Peninsula, put to test the air defenders’ ability to not only fulfill their primary mission of protecting the sky over South Korea, but also to execute combined force protection and logistic resupply missions with their adjacent U.S. and Republic of Korea units on the battlefield. The exercise included realistic scenarios that prepared the Iron Horse Soldiers mentally and physically to fight, survive, and prevail if engaged in a prolonged armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula.

On Suwon Air Base, Pfc. Harley Farnsworth and the rest of his crew from B Battery, 6-52 Air Defense Artillery Battalion, received the order to reload one of the PATRIOT launching stations. The crews immediately dashed toward the launcher, their ballistic armor plates heavy upon them as they went through the steps to reload the spent canister utilizing the guided missile transport.