{"id":49726,"date":"2023-10-04T20:19:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T20:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2023\/10\/04\/us-troops-practice-water-crossings-after-russias-bloody-failures\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:20:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:20:04","slug":"us-troops-practice-water-crossings-after-russias-bloody-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2023\/10\/04\/us-troops-practice-water-crossings-after-russias-bloody-failures\/","title":{"rendered":"US troops practice water crossings after Russia\u2019s bloody failures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Engineers with the<b> <\/b>18th Airborne Corps based at Fort Stewart, Georgia teamed up with 3rd Infantry Division tankers there to complete a complex crossing exercise on Sept. 21. The once-routine training carries a stark urgency after a battalion of Russian armor was destroyed last year trying to do the same in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The troops of the 92nd Engineer Battalion\u2019s 497th Multi-Role Bridge Company successfully helped a Bradley Fighting Vehicle carrying cavalry scouts and a M1A2 SEPV3 Abrams tank from 3rd Battalion, 69th Armor cross a water obstacle at the south Georgia post, according to a press release and division officials. Division officials noted the exercise was the first time the SEPV3 Abrams model \u2014 which will remain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2023\/09\/06\/us-army-scraps-abrams-tank-upgrade-unveils-new-modernization-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Army\u2019s most modern tank<\/a> until the new M1E3 model enters service in the early 2030s \u2014 had crossed a water obstacle at an East Coast base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"6392\" height=\"4261\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8034356.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86995\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8034356.jpg.jpg 6392w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8034356.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8034356.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8034356.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8034356.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8034356.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 6392px) 100vw, 6392px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Soldiers discuss recon operations after executing a wet gap crossing at Fort Stewart, Georgia, September 2023. (Spc. Duke Edwards\/Army)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wet gap crossings, as they\u2019re known in Army doctrine, allow mechanized units to cross bodies of water using temporary bridges assembled by engineer troops. That allows units to avoid existing bridges, which often are heavily fortified and rigged for destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When contested, wet gap crossings can become bloody affairs \u2014 at least 400 Russian soldiers were killed in May 2022 when they tried and failed to attack over the Siversky Donets river in eastern Ukraine. The defenders repeatedly counterattacked the bridgehead and destroyed four Russian pontoon bridges, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/25\/world\/europe\/russia-ukraine-donbas.html\" target=\"_blank\">the New York Times<\/a>, using artillery and floating mines that Ukrainians placed in the river upstream (in friendly territory) to be carried by the current to the bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"6720\" height=\"4480\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7432512.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7432512.jpg.jpg 6720w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7432512.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7432512.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7432512.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7432512.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7432512.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 6720px) 100vw, 6720px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Soldiers assigned to the 497th Multi-Role Bridge Company, 92nd Engineer Battalion, use an M1120 Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck Load Handling System to retrieve each separate bay of a bridge after a Wet Gap Crossing exercise on Fort Stewart, Georgia Sept. 22, 2022. 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Joseph Whitley, stressed the importance of \u201csets and reps\u201d on the complex maneuver in a statement accompanying the release. \u201cThis is something that this company specifically trains on and we\u2019re really good at it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And those repetitions will be important should the Army find itself fighting in Europe or East Asia anytime soon \u2014 the continents are crisscrossed with rivers that required numerous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jr1z1xPxMNY\" target=\"_blank\">wet gap crossing operations throughout World War II<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army hopes to avoid bloody crossing debacles should it fight in a large-scale war in the years 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