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Joint training leader discusses Unified Endeavor 2007

U.S. Joint Forces Command concludes the latest iteration of the Unified Endeavor Mission Rehearsal Exercise series designed to help the Army’s XVIII Airborne Corps and other units get ready for duty in Iraq.

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By Army Spc. Andrew Orillion
USJFCOM Public Affairs

(FORT BRAGG, N.C. –Aug. 23, 2007) –- Army Maj. Gen. Jason Kamiya, U.S. Joint Forces Command’s director of joint training and commander of the Joint Warfighting Center, Suffolk, Va., and Army Brig. Gen. Michael Ferriter, deputy commander of operations for the Army’s XVIII Airborne Corps, briefed reporters at the Pentagon on the progress of exercise Unified Endeavor 07-2 (UE 07-2), via a video feed from Fort Bragg, N.C., today.

UE 07-2 prepares the XVIII Airborne Corps for its deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The XVIII Airborne Corps will work with the Multi-National Corps Iraq (MNCI) when it deploys this coming spring.

Kamiya explained how the training, which wraps up this week, is the culmination of a year of preparation in Iraq and in the United States. "We brought in about 56 experts from Multination Force Iraq and Multi-National Corps Iraq to help us in exercise design and as subject matter experts during the execution of this exercise."

Ferriter said that the training received by the XVIII Airborne Corps was very helpful in achieving this objective.

"These exercises bring the best practices, as seen over the last several rotations, fed by the experts at Joint Forces Command and the experts at the Army’s Battle Command Training Program," said Ferriter.

While the XVIII Airborne was the focus of the exercise, Kamiya spoke about the training of subordinate units and how they were included in the exercise which ends Friday.

"While the focus here in August is the corps headquarters, we have invested an equal amount of time energy and time insuring that the subordinate units, the subordinate commands are equally well trained," said Kamiya.

One new element came with the Iraqi Ground Forces commander and his staff as well as members of the MNCI were on hand for the exercise. Ferriter spoke about the unique perspective they helped provide for the training.

'The value of personal relationships in the environment where we will go and the trust and reliance that we have in each other and understanding the commander and the way he looks at things is priceless," said Ferriter. "So to have them come here and travel with us gives us insight."

The exercise took place simultaneously at Fort Bragg, N.C., Joint Warfighting Center in Suffolk, Va., Fort Leavenworth, Kan., Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., Fort Hood, Texas, Fort Drum, N.Y., Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., and Hurlburt Field, Fla.

In addition to XVIII Airborne Corps, the exercise included elements of the Air Combat Command, U.S. Special Operations Command, the U.S. Army Forces Command and U.S. Marine Corps Forces Command, as well as individual augmentees from other units and foreign military partners.