The U.S. Army ran a rare large-scale exercise at Fort Bragg testing its ability to carry out mass burials, a practice it hasn’t used since the Korean War, in preparation for a hypothetical war involving mass casualties.
The U.S.’s air supremacy, logistical advancements, and relatively low casualties scattered across a longer time period have spared the U.S. from having to carry out mass burials, instead being able to take bodies home individually for proper burial. As the U.S. military changes its focus towards large-scale combat operations, it has begun likewise preparing for large-scale casualties and its ability to bury a large number of corpses at once. It carried out its first openly disclosed exercise testing this ability at scale, Phase II of Operation Dragon Covenant, earlier this month.
