US Army battlefield graves drill
The gist
US Army engineers tested a D6 bulldozer digging a simulated mass grave at Fort Bragg-area site in North Carolina.
The drill aims to prepare fatality care for a high-intensity war, a skill unused at scale since the 1950s.
How it unfolded
- Oct 20, 2026Chaplain Maj. Warwick Fuller led a prayer to consecrate a designated temporary interment site in Fayetteville, North Carolina, as engineers operated a D6 bulldozer to excavate a simulated burial site.
- Oct 21, 2026A D6 bulldozer backfilled a simulated temporary interment trench during Phase II of Operation Dragon Covenant near the St. Mere Eglise Drop Zone.
- Oct 26, 2026The Army announced the exercise in a release, reported by Army Times, UA.NEWS and army.mil.