{"id":126794,"date":"2024-02-25T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=126794"},"modified":"2024-02-26T23:35:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T23:35:02","slug":"task-force-marne-nato-allies-build-interoperability-during-combined-arms-live-fire-exercise-in-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=126794","title":{"rendered":"Task Force Marne, NATO Allies build interoperability during combined arms live-fire exercise in Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n U.S. Army Sgt. Richers Small, an infantryman assigned to Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 69th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, coordinates communication during a combined arms live-fire exercise at Bemowo Piskie Training Area, Poland, Feb. 22, 2024. The 3rd Infantry Division\u2019s mission in Europe is to engage in multinational training and exercises across the continent, working alongside NATO Allies and regional security partners to provide combat-credible forces to V Corps, America\u2019s forward deployed corps in Europe. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Alex Soliday)
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\n U.S. Army Spc. Raeshaun Wilson, an infantryman assigned to Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 69th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, engages a target during a combined arms live-fire exercise at Bemowo Piskie Training Area, Poland, Feb. 22, 2024. The 3rd Infantry Division\u2019s mission in Europe is to engage in multinational training and exercises across the continent, working alongside NATO Allies and regional security partners to provide combat-credible forces to V Corps, America\u2019s forward deployed corps in Europe. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Alex Soliday)
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BEMOWO PISKIE, Poland \u2014 U.S. Army Soldiers from Task Force Marne and fellow Allied troops from NATO’s enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group Poland (eFP Poland) trained shoulder-to-shoulder to build interoperability in a combined arms live-fire exercise at Bemowo Piskie Training Area, Poland, that runs Feb. 20 to March 1.<\/p>\n

Infantry, armor, and artillery assets from the 3rd Infantry Division, alongside their NATO Allies from the United Kingdom, Romania, Croatia, and Poland participated in the massive combined arms live-fire exercise (CALFEX). A CALFEX provides troops the opportunity to employ the full spectrum of combat capabilities while training alongside Allies and other units in simulated combat scenarios with a wide range of weapons, vehicle systems, and tactics.<\/p>\n

Troops with eFP Poland participated in large breaching exercises which saw U.S. engineers clearing obstacles while tracked vehicles suppressed simulated enemy positions and armor as infantry moved to clear enemy trenches.<\/p>\n

This CALFEX represented the first iteration of a multinational combined arms exercise led by 2nd Battalion, 69th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division since the unit arrived in Poland in September. The exercise incorporated British reconnaissance, Croatian field artillery, and Romanian air defense artillery, according to U.S. Army Maj. Alexander Boroff, the battalion\u2019s operations officer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s great about our Allies is that they\u2019re all very capable,\u201d Boroff said. \u201cIt was refreshing to come out here and see all of them as excited to train as the U.S. Army is. When we do these battle group live fires, you have expectations of how our allies will interact with our American units. When they mesh together, it really comes together to be a good exercise in interoperability.\u201d<\/p>\n

U.S. and NATO Allied commanders had to come together to plan the exercise and execute the mission, which incorporated engineers, infantrymen, tanks, and anti-air assets, among many other units and capabilities into the tasks.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the planning and preparation that went into the combined arms exercise was amazing,\u201d Capt. Tevin Edmonds, commander of Bravo \u201cBad\u201d Company, 9th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, said. \u201cGetting to see their different perspectives from their own specific jobs then coming together and making one solid plan that we were able to execute was amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The CALFEX allowed U.S. Soldiers and NATO Allies to train alongside one another while learning more about each other\u2019s equipment and tactics and how they would operate in real-world scenarios. The CALFEX provided an opportunity to strengthen the Allied countries\u2019 unity and interoperability, despite each nation having different standards and procedures.<\/p>\n

\u201cIntegrating all of that together and taking into account each nation\u2019s separate safety responsibilities just makes it a challenge [from] the planning perspective for training,\u201d Boroff said. \u201cHowever, once you kind of work through all that, you come out with a great outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1 \/ 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption \u2013 U.S. Army Sgt. Richers Small, an infantryman assigned to Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 69th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, coordinates communication during a combined arms live-fire exercise at Bemowo Piskie Training Area, Poland, Feb. 22, 2024. The 3rd Infantry Division\u2019s mission […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126796,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126794","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\/126794","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=126794"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126799,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126794\/revisions\/126799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}