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USJFCOM to partner with NATO for training exercise in Afghanistan
U.S. Joint Forces Command and NATO’s Allied Command – Transformation will partner during a November command post exercise to support the training of the Afghan National Army. Robert Pursell has the story.
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Narrated by Robert Pursell, USJFCOM Public Affairs
Featuring USJFCOM’s Army Col. Mike Rose, CENTCOM Desk Officer at J7
Pursell: U.S. Joint Forces Command and NATO’s Allied Command – Transformation will partner during a command post exercise or CPX to support the training of the Afghan National Army or ANA this fall.
The Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan, responsible for the overall training of ANA, requested USJFCOM’s Joint Training Directorate and Joint Warfighting Center and ACT to assist in the planning and execution of the exercise. The International Security Augmentation Force will also participate in the exercise, slated to begin this November in Kabul, Afghanistan.
USJFCOM’s Army Col. Mike Rose, CENTCOM Desk Officer at J7, explained the purpose of the exercise.
Rose: What we’re going to try to do is go into the national military command center of Afghanistan and train them in how we report, how we handle incidents, how we plan for future operations.
Pursell: Exercise organizers are planning for the event to help develop an ANA training and exercise capability to include an ANA exercise and training organization, structure, and schedule.
Rose said because this is a CPX, there will not be a lot of troop movement. Most of the training will involve scenarios where the ANA general staff will use real world communications systems. He said an objective is to keep the exercise technically simple and easily understandable. Then it is up to the ANA to decide how they want to go forward.
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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