Soldiers with Charlie Company of the 1-138th Infantry
Battalion, 39th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Missouri
National Guard went head to head with the 509th Infantry
Regiment Geronimo Company soldiers for the Joint Readiness
Training Center (JRTC) "Fight Night" final event at Fort
Polk on July 25-26, 2021.
Force-on-force nighttime combat across the simulated
battlefield lasted many hours in to the early morning. The
Fight Night was the last major combat engagement during the
39th Brigade's JRTC rotation.
The first segment shows the combat under normal night
darkness with this second segment showing the soldiers
action through a night vision camera.
U.S. Army National Guard video segments by Sgt. 1st
Class Heather Peters Spc. Maddie Fortune Staff Sgt.
Shane Smith Sgt. Marie Bryant