field maneuvers
Troops practicing outdoors
Field maneuvers are large-scale military training exercises conducted outdoors, simulating combat conditions.
Troops practice coordinated movements, tactics, and operations across actual terrain rather than in classrooms or on parade grounds: The battalion spent two weeks on field maneuvers in the desert.
The term sometimes appears figuratively for any elaborate tactical preparation.
- war gameMock military operation
- mock battleSimulated combat for training
- evacuationRemoval from danger
- drillHole-boring device
- navigationDetermining position and course
exercise · reconnaissance · night ops · deployment · ambush · rescue operation · camouflage techniques · skirmish · signaling · teamwork · crisis management · contingency planning · terrain analysis · map reading · positioning · hazard assessment · communication devices · patrol
- military basesFort Bragg, Fort Hood, military base, Fort Benning, air force base
- military trainingdrill instructor, training manual, combat drills, drilling, drill weekend
- WWI campscantonment, cantonments, doughboys
field maneuversclassroom instruction
Teaching in school setting
academic study · classroom training · book learning · simulator training · simulation training
field maneuverscombat operations
Active military engagement
battle · war · wartime operations · armed conflict · military campaign
field maneuversgarrison duty
Military base assignment
barracks life · standby · desk duty · leave · demobilization
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