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Brigade Conducts Battle Simulation

Georgia Army National Guardsmen Sgt. Glenn Bartley tightens a bolt to help set up a tent in preparation for the 48th Infantry Brigade's Janus exercise, a computer simulated battle, at Fort Stewart Friday December 6, 2002. Bartley, a Savannah resident, is a combat engineer with Headquarters Company, 648th Engineer Battalion in Statesboro. Georgia Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Jeff Lowry      Members of the 48th Infantry Brigade conducted war games at Fort Stewart in December using a computer program designed to help the brigade monitor what’s happening on the battlefield. The event is a precursor to the 48th’s upcoming fight against opposition forces it will face at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, Calif., in 2005.
      The Janus program, named for the Roman god of war, doesn’t use just clear glass with markings on it for following a battlefield situation. It instead uses tank, helicopter and soldier icons as well as typography and grid lines to indicate where equipment and troops are on the battlefield. This, several of the 48th soldiers said, is much better than doing it the old fashioned way using large sheets of paper, rulers and markers.
      The exercise at Fort Stewart isn’t the last for the brigade before its goes to NTC. In February, its soldiers will conduct simulated battle drills to test the decision making process from the brigade to the battalion and company levels. 

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