{"id":322058,"date":"2024-11-26T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=322058"},"modified":"2024-11-29T06:50:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T06:50:02","slug":"swedish-army-chief-visits-new-york-army-guard-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=322058","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Army Chief Visits New York Army Guard Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n U.S. Army Lt. Col. Elsa Canales, support operations officer for the 369th Sustainment Brigade, New York National Guard, speaks with members of the Swedish military as she gives them a tour of the 42nd Infantry Division\u2019s command post exercise operations at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa., Nov. 21, 2024. The New York National Guard and Sweden entered into an official partnership as part of the National Guard\u2019s State Partnership Program in July, focusing on shared values and training to build relationships and capabilities for both military forces. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Harley Jelis, 42nd Infantry Division Public Affairs)
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FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. – Sweden\u2019s top Army officer visited New York Army National Guard Soldiers from the 42nd Infantry Division conducting a command post exercise at Fort Indiantown Gap Nov. 17-20.<\/p>\n

Maj. Gen. Jonny Lindfors, Sweden\u2019s chief of Army, the equivalent to the U.S. Army\u2019s chief of staff, led a delegation of officers to the Pennsylvania National Guard base to observe a division headquarters in action.<\/p>\n

The division headquarters Soldiers were preparing for their Warfighter exercise.<\/p>\n

In July, the New York National Guard and the Swedish military signed a State Partnership Program agreement. This was the first time the Swedes visited one of the 42nd Infantry Division\u2019s exercises.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe immediate goals are to get a knowledge of our respective nations\u2019 capabilities and what we are able to do together, and we have identified a number of objectives already,\u201d Lindfors said. \u201cIn a couple of weeks, we will have a number of officers and Soldiers from the Guard coming over to Sweden to do basic arctic leader\u2019s training. Then, in the new year, we will do some wet gap crossing and exercises together.\u201d<\/p>\n

The state partnership between New York and Sweden focuses on shared values and training that will build relationships and improve capabilities for both military forces.<\/p>\n

Lindfors said the New York National Guard\u2019s operational and planning strengths, including river crossings, responding to chemical disasters, and border and customs control, are areas where the two organizations will share knowledge and training.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour division is doing a lot of planning on the wet gap crossing and the operation part of it. What we are really good at is the really technical level of wet gap crossing, with running water, cold and icy conditions,\u201d Lindfors said. \u201cWe can merge (this) knowledge together. We\u2019re bringing technical knowledge to the game as the 42nd division will come with the operational knowledge of how to fit into a large-scale operation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maj. Gen. Jack A. James Jr., the commanding general of the 42nd Infantry Division, said he looks forward to working with Sweden.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the situation in Europe, Sweden coming into NATO is very important and is critical to shoring up everyone\u2019s collective security,\u201d James said. \u201cI truly believe in this as an enduring and fruitful partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n

As senior leaders showcased the division\u2019s capabilities to their Swedish counterparts, the Soldiers of the 42nd Infantry Division and subordinate unit Soldiers from the 42nd Infantry Division Artillery, the 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team and the 369th Sustainment Brigade trained for nearly five days to prepare for the Warfighter exercise.<\/p>\n

A Warfighter is a simulated exercise to train and evaluate Army division-sized elements on mission command in large-scale combat operations.<\/p>\n

The 42nd Infantry Division Soldiers will conduct their Warfighter, alongside the 10th Mountain Division, in January as part of the division\u2019s premobilization training for their deployment to the Middle East in 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Army has shifted focus to the ability to conduct (operations) against peer and near-peer threats,\u201d James said.<\/p>\n

While the division is to deploy to the Middle East, he said it must be ready to deploy anywhere in any regional combatant command.<\/p>\n

\u201cWarfighter is the premier training event to operate in that environment,\u201d James said. \u201cIt is our premier training event, it is the Army\u2019s premier training event, and it is the hardest thing people will do. It will challenge people intellectually, mentally and even physically.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the week-long exercise, forces and events were simulated in a notional environment as the commander and staff planned, coordinated, synchronized and exercised command and control during the mission.<\/p>\n

The division and its subordinate brigades created six command posts spread across Fort Indiantown Gap to mimic the dispersal of forces in an operational environment.<\/p>\n

Command Sgt. Maj. Arnold Reyes, the division\u2019s senior enlisted leader, attributed the skill of the division\u2019s Soldiers to their training in the year\u2019s prior two command post exercises.<\/p>\n

Those exercises, along with smaller internal training events, allowed the division\u2019s troops to form bonds within their sections and across teams and companies, letting them begin CPX 3 with a solid foundation of teamwork.<\/p>\n

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U.S. Army Lt. Col. Elsa Canales, support operations officer for the 369th Sustainment Brigade, New York National Guard, speaks with members of the Swedish military as she gives them a tour of the 42nd Infantry Division\u2019s command post exercise operations at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa., Nov. 21, 2024. The New York National Guard and Sweden […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322060,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322058","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\/322058","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=322058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322061,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322058\/revisions\/322061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/322060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}