SOCJFCOM completes in-residence JSOTF training course
Special Operations Command-Joint Forces Command recently conducted a week-long course in Suffolk, Va. for those transferring to a theater special operations command or being assigned as an individual augmentee to a joint special operations task force to prepare them for what they will see and do when they deploy. Robert Pursell has the story.
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Narrated by Robert Pursell, USJFCOM Public Affairs
Featuring: Navy Lt. Cmdr. Eric Denis, Level II course student
Pursell: U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Special Operations Command - Joint Forces Command or SOCJFCOM recently wrapped up its second joint special operations task force or JSOTF Level II course.
SOCJFCOM, a subordinate command of USJFCOM, serves as the DoD's primary joint special operations forces trainer and integrator, supporting all geographic combatant commands and joint task forces. SOCJFCOM’s seven core training functions include command and control, intelligence, operations, support, plans, communications and effects.
The week-long Level II course, conducted in Suffolk, Va., is for those transferring to a theater special operations command assignment or being assigned as an individual augmentee to a JSOTF. The course represents what the warfighter will see at a JSOTF headquarters.
Air Force Maj. George Dowdy, one of the instructors for the course, said the purpose was to take staff operating at the tactical level and move them to the operational level of war, where they must link strategic objectives with tactical operations. He said the course included 35 students representing all of the services.
One of those students, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Eric Denis, said his greatest benefit of the course was the ability to look at the larger picture and see how everything fits together.
Denis: What I’ve gained the most out of this course was simply being able to bring the connection to what happens actually on the ground at a tactical trigger-pulling level to how that fits into the bigger picture of what the joint task force commander as well as the joint special operations task force commander is trying to achieve.
Pursell: SOCJFCOM conducts its training at two additional levels as well. The other courses include Level I, a web-based joint SOF individual training for individuals assigned to a JSOTF who may not have a joint or SOF background and Level III, joint SOF collective training for a JSOTF.
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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