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During the weekend of 4-7 December, Amphibious Warfare School and Marine Corps Warfighting Lab conducted Battlefield Shaping Task Force Exercise 98-1 in eastern Virginia. (See MCG, Dec97, pp. 2 & 16-26.) The exercise was designed to create a framework providing U.S. Navy and Marine Corps junior officers a chance to learn how to exploit opportunities on the battlefield and record some of their discoveries. Built around a small ground team of LAVs and a small air team of Navy and Marine fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft, the force-onforce exercise explored sea/air/ground battlefield shaping concepts.
Students from AWS served as exercise observer/controllers, while...