US Army conducts rare training drill for mass battlefield graves

The US Army practiced digging mass battlefield graves for the first time since the Korean War.

The US Army recently carried out a rare large-scale exercise at Fort Bragg to test its capacity for mass burials. This drill marks the first time the military has practiced such operations since the Korean War. Officials designed the training to prepare for potential high-casualty conflicts against sophisticated adversaries.

• The locationThe drill took place at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
• The contextMilitary planners anticipate future conflicts could involve casualty rates not seen in recent decades of counterinsurgency operations.