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Combined
Joint Task Force Exercise 04-2 (CJTFEX 04-2)
Elements of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and
Special Operations, as well as forces provided by the United
Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, France, Germany,
and Peru will participate in Combined Joint Task Force Exercise
(CJTFEX) 04-2.
Running
from June 12-21, the final phase of CJTFEX 04-2 represents
the continuation of many planned U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint
National Training Capability (JNTC) events, which will
pull together individual services' training sites, systems,
and events
to meet the needs of combatant commanders to fight in a joint
environment.
CJTFEX 04-2 meets not only JNTC requirements, but also aids
the Department of Defense in preparing forces like the USS
John F. Kennedy Carrier Strike Group (CSG) and USS Harry
S. Truman CSG for eventual deployment to support real-world
operations.
The exercise's other major objectives include:
• Act
as an enhanced integration exercise to facilitate the establishment
of JNTC's initial operational capability
by October 2004
• Conduct interoperability training employing a forcible entry
scenario
• Integrate, train and assess USJFCOM component and multinational
various tactical tasks.
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Provide a venue for combat identification and interoperability
evaluation, technology concept demonstrations (TCD) and joint
test and evaluation (JT&E).
• Provide a venue for US/UK bilateral training exercise
A key part of the Department of Defense's efforts to transform
military training, JNTC represents a global network of joint
training facilitators composed of live, virtual and constructive
components (L-V-C).
This
L-V-C environment works to meld existing operational and
strategic facets of the exercise
with live forces, creating a more robust and realistic exercise.
During CJTFEX 04-2, live component exercise participants
will participate in the waters off the U.S. East Coast, while
virtual participants will join the exercise via computer
networks from twenty different sites as far away as Naval
Air Station Fallon, Nev., and Ft. Bliss, Texas.
Elements of JNTC will ultimately create an environment where
every level of training is orchestrated within a joint context,
thus providing the highest level of training for seamless
future warfighting.
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