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NOTE: Duty Positions change during the SOBC FTX.
The SOBC FTX is held the second to last week of the course (the last week is reserved for out-processing). 

One aggravating note--your superiors will force you to turn in money before the FTX to pay for the MREs you do not want.

Everyone with a projected S6 job will go into the S6-track course, while everyone else will go into the MapEx/FTX track. 

The MapEx feeds right into the FTX.  After your squad briefings on the last day of the MapEx, you will meet as a class to receive the final mission briefing.  Your instructor will assign a new Platoon leader for each day of the FTX.  It is up to the platoon leader to assign each day's platoon sergeant and squad leaders. 

During the briefing, you will be told that the second field site has been changed to the fenced-in compound on post.  So half of your FTX will be in the Fort Gordon training area, while the other half will be in the fenced-in compound on post.  The field site is supposed to be more of a tactical environment (the focus is on site defense) while the on-base site is supposed to be more relaxed (the focus is sitting on your thumb and playing spades).

On the first day of the FTX, everyone will meet at the A/442 motor pool.  You will then draw weapons (as will the S6 students who have volunteered to be OPFOR).  The 1st platoon will then head out in a convoy to the field site. 

Halfway to the field site, you will be ambushed by your instructors and the OPFOR.  They will probably take out the first vehicle to stop all the vehicles in their tracks.  Everyone will pile out of the trucks and humvees and protect both sides of the road (make sure you have your plan in place beforehand).  The OPFOR and your instructors will try to run down your line and shoot people from behind.  Make sure you have your protective masks on, because they will immediately start throwing canisters at you. 

Once the fighting dies down (and most of the convoy is dead), they will call an end to the exercise and conduct a short AAR.  Afterwards, the convoy will move out and the OPFOR will lay in wait to ambush the second platoon.

Each platoon then goes through its site (1st platoon tactical, and 2nd platoon non-tactical).  After 2 nights, the platoons will switch sites.

To learn more about each site, click the links below:

Tactical Site (in the field)

Nontactical Site (on Fort Gordon)

On Thursday morning, each platoon will tear down their respective sites and head back to Fort Gordon.  You will convoy back to the motor pool, where you will unpack the vehicles and clean all the equipment.  The best way to do this is to divide up into groups--one team to clean weapons, one team to clean protective masks, and one team to unpack and clean the vehicles (this also involves cleaning wires, rope, etc).  The vehicle cleaning involves a lot of manual labor, so ensure the people on this group can carry their weight.

Once both platoon's vehicles are clean and each person has turned in his mask, everyone will head to the arms room to turn in weapons.  Each weapons should have been checked and rechecked at the arms room, because the armorers will not take back dirty weapons.  Once the weapons have been turned in, everyone is released until the next morning.

That Friday, the whole class will participate in Signal Stakes. 

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