Colonel Sam Sargeant, Commander of the 53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team and CSM. James Reid, 53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team Command Sergeant Major, recently sat down to discuss the advantage of training in realistic, austere environments such as XCTC. “There’s almost nothing that we do at Camp Shelby, from a collective training standpoint, that doesn’t prepare our soldiers to also face the challenges that we may see here in Florida in a domestic operation,” said Sargeant. XCTC is the Army Na