A?test exercise with actual troops and equipment staged
under informationalization condition by a mechanized infantry
brigade of the Beijing Military Area Command was wrapped up in a
vast desert in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
The exercise, which set tactical scenarios according to the
requirements of actual combat, was carried out on three different
training grounds.
During the exercise, the troops switched the degrees of combat
readiness and organized accompanying transportation of materials,
equipment, POL and ammunition in strict accordance with actual
combat standard.
The officers and men drilled on long-range, multi-directional
and multi-echelon mobility. The armored troops rehearsed
long-distance wheeled marching on complicated terrains and
organized organic armored battalions to ferry across the sea in
wave formations before they seized the beach to make landing. The
artillery troops organized swift loading of their artillery pieces
onto ships to ferry across the sea.
(PLA Daily September 23, 2007)