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Robin Sage SFQC -
Field Training Exercise (FTX)
Welcome to
"Pineland"
Robin Sage is a 19-day
problem-solving field training exercise (FTX) that takes place
in the notional country of Pineland. During this unconventional
warfare (UW) exercise, the Special Forces student is required to
apply the lessons learned from his previous months of Special
Forces MOS and field training.
The Robin Sage FTX is designed to
exercise the skills taught in the Special
Forces Qualification Course. Officer and noncommissioned
officer students are formed into Special Forces operational
detachment-A (ODA) teams and evaluated on their conduct of a UW
mission in Pineland.
This exercise involves
approximately 100 Special Forces
students, 100 counter-insurgent personnel (OPFOR), 200 guerrilla
personnel, 40 auxiliary personnel, and 50 cadre. Except for the
auxiliary, all personnel are Active Duty military. It ranges
over approximately 50,000 square miles at a cost of nearly
$49,000.
At the onset of this exercise the
students are placed in isolation for 5 days. They are issued an
operations order and begin the intense planning process and
study required to execute their detachment's mission during the
FTX.
On day 5 of the exercise, the
final day of "isolation," the detachment presents its
plan in a "brief back" to the battalion command and
staff. The detachment will explain, in detail, how the ODA
commander intends to execute the mission.
On day 6 the students make an
airborne infiltration into the country of Pineland to link up
with the guerrilla force and be in the execution phase of the
Robin Sage FTX.
After linkup, the ODAs begin
their task of training, advising, and assisting the guerrillas
in a UW environment. The training will exercise the various
specialties organic to each ODA: weapons, communications,
medical, and demolitions. This training will enable the
guerrillas to begin the process of liberating their country from
oppression.
At the conclusion of the Robin
Sage FTX, the student will have been placed in many situations
where he will have been required to use his leadership
abilities, MOS skills, and his ability to work in adverse and
austere conditions.
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