Muddy wheels, foggy lenses: 25th ID tests new vehicles, drones during Philippines exercises

HONOLULU–When Army officials picked the 25th Infantry Division for the Transformation-in-Contact program, they knew water would shape its performance on the kind of island terrain that might be a future battlefield.Firstly, because it’s much more humid in Hawaii year-round than Kentucky or New York, but also because the Indo-Pacific’s multi-island nations make it hard for infantry units to get around. “So it depends on how much it's been raining,” Sgt. Maj. Ste