Elite forces plan “covert” exercises in Boise next fall

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Boise -- The Marine Corps Warfighting Lab (MCWL) recently completed open urban warfare excercises in North Little Rock, Arkansas. At that time it was announced another MCWL exercise was planned for Boise next fall.

Where the North Little Rock exercises involved checkpoints, house to house searches, and carrying weapons openly in the streets, the Boise exercises will be “covert” in nature. Some 50 Marines are expected to be split up into teams of 12. They are to pick targets and gather intelligence without being detected. “Boise is going to be great with the phone number list Greenbelt going right through the city,” Randy Gangle, senior operational adviser for the MCWL said . “It is going to be good to get out of a sterile military environment and practice in a real, live city. Frankly, we just really don´t know how to do urban ground reconnaissance,” Gangle explained.

Most urban warfare exercises taking place throughout the nation for the last several years have been multi-jurisdictional training exercises involving local police, national guard and regular military personnel. These exercises, however, are conducted by this special group of Marines to test new technology and techniques for urban warfare that can be applied anywhere in the world or here at home.