33 YOUNGSTOWN, N.Y. Soldiers of the New York Army National Guard’s 152nd Engineer Company dumped the virtual training from 2020, and got down to being combat engineers again May 9-23 during annual training at an 840-acre training site in western New York.
The company, part of the 204th Engineer Battalion, was tasked with upgrading the Youngstown Local Training Area as their two-week mission.
The Soldiers constructed an Army Combat Fitness Course, a Situational Training Exercise lanes course, improved the area’s road network, and set up a land navigation course.
The engineers cleared woods and improved drainage as well.
The construction is part of the New York National Guard’s Range Complex Master Plan, which calls for upgrading training areas to prepare Guard units for deployments.
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Dilano Taylor (5-1) vs. Carlos Matos (8-1)
Titan Fighting Championship returns for its 69th event on Friday. The show is a co-promotion with the Dominican Republic’s Fighting Force organization and features title fights for both companies. The Titan championship affair is a clash for the vacant welterweight title between prospect Carlos Matos and up-and-comer Dilano Taylor.
The 24-year-old Matos made his pro debut in 2017 and has been nearly perfect ever since. “El Matador” secured each of his first four victories by rear-naked choke. He added a triangle-choke submission of the formerly undefeated Reynaldo Acevedo in his fifth outing and then resorted to using his fists to secure his next two victories. Matos was finally stopped by Joziro Boye in a November 2019 fight. His most recent appearance opposite Islam Bagavutdinov was a return to the basics: it ended in a first-round rear-naked-choke finish for Matos. This will be the highest-profile contest yet for the Team Mordan r