The Taipei reserve brigade today entered its fourth day of a new 14-day training program at the Taipei Tennis Center in Neihu District (內湖), practicing formations for urban combat.
The training program, which started on Saturday, focused on company-level formations today, requiring participants to adjust to both the enemy and road conditions as practice for responding to emergency situations.
The reservists used trails to simulate forked roads and environments that could be encountered in urban combat.
Photo: Liu Yu-chieh, Taipei Times
They practiced different formations depending on mission needs and local conditions, including protective actions at intersections and the use of hand gestures common in urban warfare.
It is now the fourth year of the 14-day reserve training program, now fully rolled out across all county and city reserve units this year.
However, there are still combat reserve brigades that have kept the former five-to-seven-day training regime.
The Ministry of National Defense has selected the 206th reserve brigade to mobilize for this year’s Han Kuang exercises to verify the effectiveness of Taiwan’s reserves.
This is the first time a reserve brigade has been mobilized since the end of the Chinese Civil War.
In the past, individual companies or battalions, about 100 to 500 individuals, have been mobilized for the Han Kuang exercises, but a brigade is much larger at about 2,400 to 3,000, sources with knowledge of the matter said.
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