Page 17 - The Dispatch July 2019

TEXAS ARMY NATIONAL GUARD Partnering for the Future

GIVES FUTURES COMMAND of Military Operations

INTERNS TASTE OF MILITARY LIFE

1 As Army Futures Command settles PHOTO 1: Texas Military Department Flight Crew Chief discusses 4
into central Austin, it has found a
proper safety procedures with members of the Army Futures Com-
ready partner in the Texas Military mand internship program before a Black Hawk helicopter ride to the
Camp Swift Training Site in Bastrop, Texas, June 11, 2019.
Department as the military looks
for ways to connect with civilian
entities. PHOTO 2: Army Futures Command interns prepare Meals Ready to

Eat packets during a military familiarization visit to the National
On June 11, 2019, this partnership Guard training site, Camp Swift in Bastrop, Texas, June 11, 2019.
provided Futures Command interns
with the opportunity to experience
military training firsthand during a PHOTO 3: Interns with the Army Futures Command watch as a Black-
trip to Camp Swift in Bastrop, Texas. hawk Helicopter departs after transporting them from Camp Mabry
in Austin, Texas, to Camp Swift in Bastrop, Texas, June 11, 2019.

Participants were flown via Black-
hawk from Camp Mabry in Austin, PHOTO 4: Interns with Army Futures Command fire machine guns
Texas, to the Camp Swift training on the Camp Swift live fire range as the culminating exercise after
site where they participated in training on simulated firearms as part of a military familiarization,
weapons training, ate Meals Ready June 11, 2019.
To Eat packets and ended the day (All photos: U.S. Army National Guard Photos: 3
with a visit to the live fire range to Kyle Burns and Brandon Jones)
shoot machine guns.

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"I always saw the military not as an individual, but "Today was one of the most important things we
now I see how nice and helpful soldiers are, now I have done. It Lets us see firsthand and experience
have more of an emotional and humanized aspect of the gear and body armor, to feel how it gets sweaty
the military and how they help people." and gross and think of how we can fix that to make
(Deepti Valliappan, Intern, Army Futures Command) it better."
(Amit Nacson, Intern, Army Futures Command)