33 YOUNGSTOWN, N.Y. Soldiers of the New York Army National Guard’s 152nd Engineer Company dumped the virtual training from 2020, and got down to being combat engineers again May 9-23 during annual training at an 840-acre training site in western New York.
The company, part of the 204th Engineer Battalion, was tasked with upgrading the Youngstown Local Training Area as their two-week mission.
The Soldiers constructed an Army Combat Fitness Course, a Situational Training Exercise lanes course, improved the area’s road network, and set up a land navigation course.
The engineers cleared woods and improved drainage as well.
The construction is part of the New York National Guard’s Range Complex Master Plan, which calls for upgrading training areas to prepare Guard units for deployments.