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CC202 Exercise DYNAMIC VICTORY
The final exercise of the Commissioning Course is designed to test OCdts’ tacti- cal planning, command, and control in a challenging environment, assessing everything the course has taught up to that point. In the backdrop of the coronavirus pan-
the blustery coastal training area of Lydd, Kent, would see Gaza and Somme companies rotate between acting as a dynamic civilian population and rigorous training as NATO forces. The rural, in SENTA, would transition into wider conven-
demic, this term’s Ex DYNAMIC VICTORY broke new ground in more ways than one.
Gaza Company’s rotation saw more humanitarian concerns with issues of resource scarcity and partnerships with NGOs
tional activities, with individual com- pany objectives spanning the Brecon hills, culminating in the final victory: a thoroughly planned battlegroup attack on Celeini Village.
Following a weekend of finalising range qualifications and battle exer- cises, OCdts deployed direct from Sandhurst to the South East Coast. Ripe Village, with a purpose-built Forward Operating Base (FOB) and modelled on modern urban settle-
With restrictions on foreign travel
to its usual destination in South-
ern Germany, and with Thetford
Training Area being used as a
suitable replacement for previous
intakes, CC202 were headed to
the home of the Infantry Battle
School: Sennybridge, Wales. With
COVID also having cancelled the population- focused Ex TEMPLER’S TRIUMPH earlier in the term, time on exercise would prove crucial for OCdts to meet the standard.
ments, offered an ideal landscape for stabilisa- tion operations and a complex human terrain. The Somme Company, as the initial NATO force, faced growing tumult from Gaza’s civilian popu- lation engaged in an upcoming election, deal- ing with escalating political unrest, and calming sectarian hostilities. Gaza Company’s rotation saw more humanitarian concerns with issues of resource scarcity and partnerships with NGOs.
In a feat of adaptability, Ex DYNAMIC VICTORY saw both modern and conventional warfighting fused into a two-week package, in two locations, in two phases. The urban phase, conducted in
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