Army Bringing Rapid Burial Training At Stomach-Turning Rate Not Seen In Decades

The Army has begun training to quickly dig temporary graves while preserving remains for identification and return to families in the case of a future large scale conflict.

Army engineers, preventative medicine teams, chaplains and fatality management specialists trained for mass temporary burials in preparation for potential future conflict during an Oct. 21 training in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Army Times reported Monday.

“The exercise served as a critical test of concept to validate the feasibility of battlefield temporary interment, an operational reality the U.S. Army has not executed at scale since the Korean War,” read an Oct. 22 release from the U.S. Army. “By bringing together fatality management specialists, horizontal construction engineers, preventive medicine teams, and chaplains, the exercise sought to determine if modern earthmoving equipment can meet the demanding timeline requirements of a mass-casualty environment.”

The Department of War did not immediately respond for comment.

These exercises were not common over the past twenty years of the War on Terror, as American air superiority allowed the quick transportation of remains back to the U.S. A future conflict with a large-scale combat operation may not have these same capabilities, according to Army Times. (Read more from “Army Bringing Rapid Burial Training At Stomach-Turning Rate Not Seen In Decades” HERE)

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