{"id":11456,"date":"2023-05-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=11456"},"modified":"2023-05-20T07:05:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T07:05:47","slug":"us-armys-exercise-cbr-18-forges-family-like-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=11456","title":{"rendered":"US Army’s exercise CBR 18 Forges Family-like Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n U.S. Army Spc. Charles Moskov, a cavalry scout assigned to 1st Battalion 5th Cavalry Regiment assembles a drone during Combined Resolve 18 at Hohenfels Training Area, Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Germany, May 10, 2023. Combined Resolve 18 is a U.S. Army exercise consisting of over 4,000 service members, allies, and partners from 15 countries, and is designed to assess units\u2019 abilities to conduct combat operations effectively in a multi-domain battlespace.
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HOHENFELS, Germany \u2013At the Joint Multinational Readiness Center, the only U.S. Army Combat Training Center outside the continental U.S., Soldiers and cultures from 15 countries have unified daily in support of Combined Resolve 18.<\/p>\n

Multinational training exercises, like CBR 18, enhance allies and partners\u2019 ability to respond more effectively to regional crises and meet their own security needs. This builds the interoperability partnership that the JMRC was founded on. Training alongside one another has forged a family-like bond between the Soldiers.<\/p>\n

It becomes something special that you only get in the Army<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like the second you meet another Soldier it’s an instant bond, you know what they’ve gone through, and they know what you\u2019ve gone through,\u201d said U.S. Army Spc. Charles Moskov, a cavalry scout assigned to 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. \u201cIt becomes something special that I think you only get in the Army.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moskov, a New York native, has been working side by side with the Belgian Army for the last week. He\u2019s now family.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe actually adopted him already, so he\u2019s Belgian in our eyes,\u201d said Belgian Defense Force Cpl. David Maes, a drone pilot assigned to Intelligence, Surveillance, Target acquisition, and Reconnaissance Battalion. \u201cYou realize the mindset is the same in every Army. We\u2019re all a team and we built a level of camaraderie that the differences aren’t there anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Maes, this is his third time being a part of Combined Resolve since 2016. Although his roles have changed over the years, the connections he makes have remained the same.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWorking with the U.S. Army has been amazing,\u201d said Maes. \u201cEvery time I’ve taken part in this exercise throughout the years it\u2019s been a great experience and I\u2019ve developed connections with people I still have today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unlike Maes, this is Moskov\u2019s first time training with partnered NATO nations and he\u2019s learning a lot.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s been fantastic working with the Belgian Army,\u201d said Moskov. \u201cThey are a great group of guys that are very professional and experienced. We\u2019ve been learning a lot from them because although we know how to camouflage, these guys are next level at it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe U.S. has a big Army, and we have a small Army so the mindset is different. We focus on camouflage because we don’t have big weapons. We must be more defensive and stealthier with our tactics,\u201d said Maes.<\/p>\n

That difference in tactics is what makes Combined Resolve successful<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI think this training has been a huge success,\u201d said Moskov. \u201cComing out here and working with our allies and partners you get an array of different tactics and methods. We\u2019re all working together. It\u2019s really thrown off the enemy in this exercise. We already met our brigade objective on day four and now we’re just on the defensive for a few more days holding the line. I think we’ve done pretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is what the NATO project is about,\u201d said Maes. \u201cDifferent countries, cultures and mindsets working together. We prove that we can do it every time and we\u2019re only getting better. We look forward to exercises like Combined Resolve. Let’s do more please.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1 \/ 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption \u2013 U.S. Army Spc. Charles Moskov (left), a cavalry scout assigned to 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment and Belgian Defense Force Cpl. David Maes, a drone pilot assigned to Intelligence, Surveillance, Target acquisition, and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) Battalion, pulls security during exercise Combined Resolve 18 at Hohenfels Training […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11458,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11456"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11462,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11456\/revisions\/11462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}