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| U.S. Navy sailors assigned to Navy Customs Battalion Sierra receive combat skills training at Cheatham Annex in Williamsburg, Va., March 9, 2007. These reserve sailors were being mobilized, equipped and trained by the Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support Group to conduct customs inspections missions in Kuwait and Iraq. U.S. Joint Forces Command has brought together over 40 senior officers from the reserves and National Guard to increase their understanding of operations reserve personnel face at various levels. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Karin R. Burzynski) |
Joint Forces Reserve Officer Orientation Course begins
U.S. Joint Forces Command has brought together over 40 senior officers from the reserves and National Guard to increase their understanding of operations at various levels.
By MC2 (AW) Nikki Carter
USJFCOM Public Affairs
(NORFOLK, Va. - May 13, 2008) –- Starting today, U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) is hosting a ten-day Joint Forces Reserve Orientation Course (JFROC) to bring over 40 senior National Guard and reserve officers in the five military services, interagency and coalition partners together to focus on the joint mission.
Air Force Col. Mike Pierce, JFROC’s director, said all of the services and component commands are supplying key speakers and firsthand looks into their operations.
Pierce said coalition partners and interagency will participate in the course showing how the role that reservists play in their day to day missions. He said the Joint Forces Staff College will host a war game for the course which runs through May 22.
“Our entire schedule is packed full with very impressive and significant speakers who have generously agreed to speak to this group of joint officers,” he said.
Pierce said the JFROC is designed to give senior reserve service members a look at daily joint operations and how the joint warfighter is utilized on active-duty.
“We need to press upon our reserve forces the importance of joint missions and joint activity,” Pierce said. “It’s a very dynamic world and we are exploring new ways to use our reserve forces.”
Pierce said the course takes the senior leadership of each of the reserve services to demonstrate and allow the service members to use their own experiences on why jointness is important.
“We are moving the reserves forces from a strategic concept to an operational reserve force totally integrated with all the aspects of the mission that active duty forces perform,” Pierce said. “The active force has been using and applying the joint models, the joint concept and the joint ways of operation. In order for the reserves to be an equal partner in this they need to be at the same knowledge level.”
Pierce said the goal is to have the senior reserve leaders carry the message back to their services and continue the growth of joint operations.
“Integrating the reserve force with active-duty force is the idea so the reserve force can operate shoulder to shoulder with the active force without missing a beat,” Pierce said. “Every service is changing, and it’s invaluable to get the chance to view these changes up close and personal.”
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