{"id":19150,"date":"2021-02-19T15:41:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T15:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/02\/19\/marines-and-army-faceoff-during-hawaii-exercise\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:19:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:19:25","slug":"marines-and-army-faceoff-during-hawaii-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2021\/02\/19\/marines-and-army-faceoff-during-hawaii-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Corps and Army faceoff during Hawaii exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At one point 20 Marines and 20 soldiers ditched their cannons and fought each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, it wasn\u2019t a turf war or a late night bar fight. It was on the South Range training area aboard the Schofield barracks <\/b>on Oahu, Hawaii, within a simulated town as part of the exercise Steel Crucible, an Army-led exercise that saw Marines and soldiers fight against each other and work side-by-side in an island-hopping campaign against the fictional nation and near-peer threat called Torbia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both forces were equipped with electronic sensors that registered when a Marine or soldier was shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was kind of like capture the flag, we set up a defensive position in a building, the Army came and attacked it,\u201d Marine 2nd Lt. Riley Rowlesbirdsong said in a video posted on the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service.<\/a> \u201cAfter that iteration we switched sides, Army held the defense, Marines attacked.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final attempt saw the Marines and soldiers \u201cintermingle\u201d in order to learn from each other, Rowlesbirdsong said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUltimately, the Marines prevailed,\u201d Lt. Col. John Gwinn, commander of the Army artillery battalion, told Marine Corps Times in an email.<\/p>\n\n\n\t