1/506th Commo test - A man in a military uniform kneeling down next to a bag

MCGREGOR RANGE, N.M. – Spc. Corey Ezra, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment (Red Currahee), 101st Airborne Division, sets up a First-In Agile Mission Command Package to provide communications with the rest of his battalion Oct. 1. The system, which can be carried in a backpack, is a combined baseband and satellite terminal, which is both modular and scaleable to meet various mission requirements. Ezra and his battalion were testing the equipment as part of the Network Integration Evaluation, or NIE 16.1., which ran from Sept. 25 to Oct. 8.