US Army practices digging temporary battlefield graves

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During an exercise in North Carolina, engineers, preventative medicine teams, chaplains and fatality management specialists prepared for mass temporary interment not used on a large scale since the Korean War, the Army announced in a release last week. Phase II of Operation Dragon Covenant challenged troops to test and validate temporary burial operations and remains preservation at a large scale. Army doctrine prescribes that temporary interment plots consist of five parallel trenches to hold 100 bodies, with ten bodies lining each side of the trenches.

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