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10th Mountain Division Soldiers Take Training into the Future

Blue and red dots fill the digital compass, while allies and enemies flood the screen of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System that Soldiers wear as they walk down the streets of a mock village at Fort Drum. There are no physical threats around, but they see translucent enemies glimmering behind glowing sandbags created by the Squad immersive Virtual System.

✔✗Subscribe Blue and red dots fill the digital compass, while allies and enemies flood the screen of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System that Soldiers wear as they walk down the streets of a mock village at Fort Drum. “SiVT is a good training tool because it allows you to create friction points and it’ll help you implement things that you might face in a real-life scenario,” said Wiggins. It allows supervisors to know where Soldiers look, point their weapon, and move, in a way that makes the process of identifying and correcting mistakes much more straightforward before the shock of first combat.

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