FORT KNOX, Ky. – Into the field they go. 7th Regiment, Basic Camp Cadets are executing battle tactics out in the wilderness of Fort Knox as part of their field training exercises July 28. Cadet Micah Griffith, a Citadel student and a resident of Saluda, South Carolina, says the purpose of the field training exercise is to give Cadets a sense of what it’s like to conduct actual mission operations against enemy units. “It gives us an idea of what we’re supposed to be doing,” Griffith shared. Cadet Michael Vilker of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign says it’s [...]