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Combat Engineer Skills Division holds their first permanent-party field-training exercise Brian Hill Fort Leonard Wood Taking advantage of some very valuable free space on their calendar, the 35th Engineer Battalion’s Combat Engineer Skills Division held a field-training exercise May 10 through 14 for their permanent-party support personnel. According to Sgt. Maj. Neal Feldmann, CESD chief instructor, the five-day exercise gave his team a chance to work on the engineer-skills proficiencies, warrior tasks and battle drills they don’t always have time to maintain with their normal work load instructing combat engineer and bridge crewmember Advanced Individual Training Soldiers at Range 33. “We have a week here where we don’t have any AIT students, so we utilized it to maintain proficiencies and skills,” he said. “As far as I know, this is the first time our unit has done something like this, and I’m glad we’re able to, because some of this stuff t ....