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Army Tests Battlefield Temporary Interment to Validate Remains Preservation and Future Repatriation
Army Mil ^ | 10 26 2026 | Capt. Thomas McCarty

Posted on 10/26/2026 6:28:05 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

FORT BRAGG, N.C. — U.S. Army Soldiers from the 3rd Corps Sustainment Command, the 20th Engineer Brigade, and Unit Ministry Teams recently executed Phase II of Operation Dragon Covenant, a test-of-concept exercise designed to evaluate and validate procedures for large-scale battlefield temporary interment.

The exercise served as a critical test of concept to validate the feasibility of battlefield temporary interment, an operational reality the U.S. Army has not executed at scale since the Korean War. By bringing together fatality management specialists, horizontal construction engineers, preventive medicine teams, and chaplains, the exercise sought to determine if modern earthmoving equipment can meet the demanding timeline requirements of a mass-casualty environment. Beyond sheer speed, a primary objective of the exercise was to verify that these temporary interment methods successfully preserve remains in an intact state, ensuring that subsequent forensic and anthropological teams can safely disinter, identify, and ultimately repatriate every fallen Soldier once hostilities cease.

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KEYWORDS: army; battlefield; internment; temporary

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1 posted on 10/26/2026 6:28:05 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Sounds like they are planning to do something that is going to get a lot of people killed.


2 posted on 10/26/2026 6:31:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The right of the Democrats to embezzle elections shall not be infringed. )
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To: yesthatjallen

My uncle did that in the Pacific.

They wrapped them in ponchos. Weeks later my uncle disinterred them, and moved to another temporary resting place.

It was not a pleasant job. But when he talked about it, he was the most reverent person you could imagine.

It would be good if we never had to do that again. Even a little bit.


3 posted on 10/26/2026 6:35:07 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And what companies have received contracts for this venture?
And who has purchased stocks/shares in those companies?


4 posted on 10/26/2026 6:52:50 PM PDT by sockmonkey (conservative. not a neocon. )
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And what companies have received contracts for this venture? And who has purchased stocks/shares in those companies?

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5 posted on 10/26/2026 7:00:16 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The right of the Democrats to embezzle elections shall not be infringed. )
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To: yesthatjallen

The administration is getting serious about cleaning up this California mess, really, really, serious.


6 posted on 10/26/2026 7:08:28 PM PDT by ansel12 (Quit anthropomorphizing SI computer functions.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hopefully, they will stick it to the IRGC without a lot of people getting killed.
And hopefully it’s a coalition of countries helping.
I don’t expect the EU, Canada or to help.


7 posted on 10/26/2026 7:19:32 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I don’t see it necessarily as an indicator of something in the works. It is an exercise, something that should be practiced.


8 posted on 10/26/2026 7:25:26 PM PDT by rlmorel (Gas prices are Temporary. Communism is Forever. Vote Republican.)
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To: yesthatjallen
Had a customer in 1999; a miserable man, from grief of the death of his son but not able to recover his body.

His son was a Special Forces scud buster in Gulf War I.

His team was attacked by the Iraq military and he was killed. His team buried his body in the Iraq desert and marked a geolocation of the site while escaping the Iraq army.

As of that time of 1999, his body was not recoverable and I would guess such was done during Gulf War II.

9 posted on 10/26/2026 7:38:51 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Didn’t they do this to Saddam Hussein’s troops, when they tried to engage us from WWI-style trenches dug in the desert sand?


10 posted on 10/26/2026 8:00:39 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Vermont Lt

They are assuming there will be bodies left to intern.


11 posted on 10/26/2026 9:29:38 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: yesthatjallen
Free Republic teaches me again. I'd always heard that as one word meaning 'closure' in two different ways. Now I find there's two separate words and I wasn't discerning the addition or omission of the letter 'N'.

interment:
1.The act or ritual of interring or burying.

2.The act or ceremony of depositing a dead body in the earth; burial; sepulture; inhumation.

internment:
1.The act of putting someone in prison or confining them, often for political or military reasons during a war.

2.The state of being interned.

If'n ah kin larn that I might could be Persident one day!

12 posted on 10/26/2026 9:37:29 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (likes genuine maple syrup on his stack of panics.)
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To: yesthatjallen

No really an enlistment incentive...


13 posted on 10/27/2026 4:16:37 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: yesthatjallen; Vermont Lt; sockmonkey; doc maverick; rlmorel; Deaf Smith; MikelTackNailer; ...
Brings tears just thinking about it. This image isn't precisely the same, but I'd like to share it here:


14 posted on 10/27/2026 9:58:48 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. --DJT)
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