PUCKAPUNYAL showcased its new method of mounted training, with the Land Tactical Vehicle Training Continuum (LTVTC) put into practice.
The LTVTC is designed to enhance survivability, self-protection and tactical profiency for soldiers in Combat Support and Combat Service Support who operate in vehicles, while also providing a training pathway for all soldiers to enhance skills when conducting operations.
The importance of it allows soldiers to protect themselves in the heat of battle, with logistics convoys large, slow-moving and vulnerable.
The training is designed to improve army-wide mounted proficiency, increase soldier survivability, a reduction of reliance on arms corps, providing more natural protection to logistics elements, allowing front line forces to remain locked in on combat operations, and building a more self-sufficient and combat ready army.
The training includes four positions – a medium heavy capability commander, protected mobility vehicle driver, commander and instructor. The focus from there is convoy operations, mounted tactics, communications, vehicle command and control and live-fire drills.
The training is delivered not just in Puckapunyal, but also Darwin, Townsville and Amberley.
Vehicles featured include a 40M medium heavy capability, a HX77 medium heavy capability truck, a HX81 heavy equipment transporter, a Hawkei protected mobility vehicle light and a Bushmaster protected mobility vehicle medium.
Up to seven vehicles can operate in a live-fire convoy, with four iterations of the training course already delivered. The logistics vehicles have the ability to deliver ammunition, fuel, water, rations and heavy equipment.
