U.S. Army trains to dig temporary mass battlefield graves

newsOct 29, 202617624

At Fort Bragg, North Carolina, soldiers from the 3rd Corps Sustainment Command and the 20th Engineer Brigade, with military chaplains and religious affairs personnel, rehearsed digging temporary mass graves to preserve fallen troops for identification and repatriation. Using bulldozers and excavators, teams tested a standard temporary internment plot of five trenches that holds 100 casualties and filled each plot in an average of one hour and 15 minutes. The Army said the remains of up to 2,400 soldiers could be temporarily buried in 24 hours using eight bulldozers and four excavators. The service has not needed large-scale temporary internment since the Korean War, which killed nearly 37,000 U.S. personnel, and in recent conflicts such as Iraq and Afghanistan the military evacuated remains back to the United States. The drills included chaplains receiving this training for the first time in more than 20 years and aimed to test how to preserve bodies intact while operations continue. Sergeant 1st Class Delbert Ruede said the exercise let troops take a "scientific, field-tested approach" and warned, "If we went to war tomorrow, we would be making this up as we went along." The training implements military rules that make commanders responsible for caring for remains during high-intensity conflict and prepares procedures to maintain control and honor of the fallen until they can be identified and returned home.

Aaron Parnas

@aaronparnas.bsky.social

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4054h ago

Never Trumper....4

VOTE like your LIFE depends on it, because it DOES....🗳️☑️

debirpo.bsky.social4

He cancelled because the crowds aren't big enough to boost his fragile narcissism, & his physicians are getting nervous from all his TIA's & seizure like tics lately. They are afraid the big one is coming.

Bubba’s Gigi2

Vote out every single republican! #GOPPedoProtectors

Yada Yada 🫘2

Health issues = crowd was going to be pathetic in size.. OR.. time to 🎶bomb bomb bomb Iran🎶

Arlene1977 🌊😎 🚫DM2

He cancelled because people aren't coming. 😂

Guy B🌈2

Blood clots do your thing. 🤞

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KQ52

Am I paranoid for being really afraid about what Trump does next? Because he's given Military Power decisions to Kegbreath, who is a Nazi, stupid, uneducated, inexperienced Psychopathic monster who just loves blowing up innocent people & causing massive destruction. Is it just me? Or is this bad?

Catherine

@waitingonafriend.bsky.social

Too few of us have seen what's coming. It's all been in plain sight. ~ The U.S. Army has resumed training for mass temporary battlefield graves for the first time in 70 years, practicing rapid trench excavation to prepare for high-casualty conflicts. www.newsweek.com/us-army-star...

276h ago

Zacharydideas3

The big question is, is this for Iran or the United States to handle all of the people they are cutting off from their health and food…

dtkt.bsky.social3

This fact and the military bases are instructed to prepare for the grid to go down and function alone for 90 days and the $41mil sent to a Philippine drug co to make ketamine wafers for military personnel. They are planning an End Times scenario.

ProBon2

Practicing in North Carolina. Not an ominous omen for the rejection of the results of the election at all. Nope.

Kane Korso

@godevils2.bsky.social

Training US Army soldiers how to effectively dig mass graves quickly should cause all of you to wonder exactly what the fuck fat boy etal is about to do and much more importantly, iwherr exactly is he planning on utilizing this. Last time we were forced to do this was in Korea. 1/4

286h ago

AsteroidX

@asteroidx.bsky.social

It should read Army digging mass graves on US soil. What are they planning.

436h ago

Middlerage

@middlerage.bsky.social

The peace “President” is training his army to dig mass graves. They haven’t done this since the Korean War! www.newsweek.com/us-army-star...

115h ago

Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🍁 🇸🇪 🇵🇷

@vero1986.bsky.social

is scheduled for spring 2027 to incorporate expanded medical facilities, security, and collection points.. WTAF www.newsweek.com/us-army-star...

136h ago

Zippyreturns - Resistance and Persistence

@zippyreturns.bsky.social

Does anyone else find this underreported information from Newsweek a little disconcerting. Like why are they doing this training now? #Concerned www.newsweek.com/us-army-star...

97h ago

gacyclist.bsky.social2

Helpful for when they declare war on americans to keep trump regime in power?

I Got Popcorn1

If they were digging mass graves, they wouldn't be for the soldiers. The US has *NEVER* done that. The graves would be for us.

olympic52.bsky.social1

What aren’t they telling us

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Heather Thomas77

As long as it’s not for us

soonergrunt

@soonergrunt.bsky.social

Why is the army practicing digging mass gravesites for the first time since the Korean war? tinyurl.com/ms3an75h

153h ago

Maya Media

@mayamedia.bsky.social

Everything’s fine, nothing to worry about! US Army Starts Practicing Digging Mass Battlefield Graves www.newsweek.com/us-army-star...

66h ago

alexjungle.bsky.social

@alexjungle.bsky.social

The U.S. Army is now training soldiers to dig mass battlefield graves for American troops for the first time in decades, rehearsing how to handle mass casualties as Trump's war continues. Could it be that this is just normal training?

154h ago

Salute Gesundheit1

It’s the robot age man, they don’t need us meat puppets.

TheRoadie.

@roadie63.bsky.social

They aren't practicing to bury "the enemy" they are practicing for our soldiers, to "preserve them until they can be sent home and identified" Perhaps CNN, in between asking Democrats to "disavow" H. Piker can ask why the fuck we are practicing digging mass graves. www.newsweek.com/us-army-star...

124h ago

Larry Colvin

@larrycolvin.bsky.social

NEWS: Fox Ratings Tank, Trump Cancels Rally in Panic, Alarm Over ‘Insane’ Iran Attack Plan, Army Practices Digging Mass Graves, ICE Horror #Blues aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-fox-r...

124h ago

savefrogs2.bsky.social

@savefrogs2.bsky.social

This is the future Trump has in mind for American troops: www.armytimes.com/news/your-ar...

64h ago

CaffeineIsLife

@caffeineislife.bsky.social

They haven't needed to get practice in for doing this, since the Korean war. This is not the reality I wanted to deal with today. 🫤

96h ago

Bruno J. Navarro

@brunojnavarro.bsky.social

The Army is preparing for the grim possibility of burying fallen soldiers on the battlefield, testing how fast it can dig temporary graves while preserving remains for eventual identification and return to families after the end of a conflict.

64h ago

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