C4
program to deliver joint training set to begin
U.S.
Joint Forces Command will hold a Command Control,
Communications and Computers Planners course to provide
knowledge and experience of joint systems in theater.
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Narrated by Robert Pursell, USJFCOM Public Affairs
Featuring: Army Maj. Rod Garfield,
joint C4 information branch chief
Pursell: U.S.
Joint Forces Command will hold a command control, communications
and computer or C4 planners course in January to provide
knowledge and experience of joint systems in theater.
The
course, developed by USJFCOM’s Joint Warfighting
Center and the command's C4 Systems Directorate or J6
along with the U.S. Army Signal Center at Ft. Gordon,
Ga., will address combatant command – identified
issues of C4 planners arriving in theater without joint
systems training.
Army Maj. Rod Garfield, joint C4 information branch chief,
explained the purpose of the course.
Garfield: "The
goal for the course is two fold; first is to bring about
a common baseline or interoperability across the services
so they can speak to each other with one commonality
on command, control, communications and computer systems
in support of the Long War. More importantly, is
for each graduate to possess the ‘know how’ required
to operate successfully on a COCOM or Joint Staff."
Pursell: Smaller courses for eight to12 students are
planned early in 2007 and organizers planned a larger course for 20 students
shortly after. Future plans for five classes per year with 15 students per
class are ongoing.
For more information on this and other ways U.S. Joint
Forces Command is supporting the warfighter, visit us on
the web at www.jfcom.mil.
For U.S. Joint Forces Command, I’m Robert Pursell.
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