Combined
Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa Mission Rehearsal
Exercise commences
U.S.
Joint Forces Command began its Combined Joint Task
Force - Horn of Africa Mission Rehearsal Exercise this
week at the Joint Warfighting Center in Suffolk, Va.
to train personnel to conduct joint operations within
the Horn of Arica. Robert Pursell
has the story.
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Narrated by Robert Pursell, USJFCOM Public Affairs
Featuring: Frank Lang, USJFCOM lead for the CJTF-HOA MRX
Pursell: U.S.
Joint Forces Command began an annual Mission Rehearsal
Exercise this week at the
Joint Warfighting Center
to train personnel to conduct joint operations within the
Horn of Arica.
The Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa MRX,
also supported by U.S. Central Command will
train Standing Navy
Joint Command Element Commander or SNJCE staff and individual
augmentees over the next two weeks by providing realistic
scenarios.
Frank Lang, the USJFCOM lead for the CJTF-HOA MRX, explained
the purpose.
Lang:
We’re
providing the best training possible to the incoming
core staff and other individual
augmentees
going to the Horn of Africa to assume the role as the [Joint
Task Force].
Pursell:
Most
of the scenarios are taken from real life situations
and are recommended by personnel
already stationed
in the region. They will be driven by the JWFC’s
Master Scenario Events List by providing a common operational
picture to the training audience. The scenarios will provide
an opportunity for personnel to work with each other.
The mission of the CJTF-HOA is to prevent conflict, promote
regional stability and protect coalition interests in east
Africa and Yemen through humanitarian assistance, disaster
relief, consequence management, and civic action programs.
Lang:
There’s a variety of ongoing operations or
events that are happening in the Horn of Africa that we’ve
replicated in the exercise to give them practice or familiarization
of what’s going on when they get there.
Pursell: Over
250 participants, including SNJCE, subject matter experts
from USCENTCOM and several interagency organizations,
are on hand for in the event. Multinational participation
includes representation from Djibouti, Republic of Mauritius,
United Kingdom and France.
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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