{"id":97027,"date":"2024-01-22T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=97027"},"modified":"2024-01-23T15:29:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T15:29:44","slug":"leaders-across-usareur-af-converge-for-winter-commanders-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=97027","title":{"rendered":"Leaders across USAREUR-AF converge for Winter Commander\u2019s Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n U.S. Army Europe and Africa held its annual Winter Commander\u2019s Conference\u2014which brought together commissioned and non-commissioned officers from NATO, Europe and Africa commands\u2014January 17-19, at Clay Kaserne in Wiesbaden, Germany.
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WIESBADEN, Germany \u2013 U.S. Army Europe and Africa held its annual Winter Commander\u2019s Conference – which brought together commissioned and non-commissioned officers from NATO, Europe and Africa commands – January 17-19, at Clay Kaserne in Wiesbaden, Germany.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur mission sets in NATO, in Europe, in Africa, and even beyond are not mutually exclusive,\u201d said U.S. Army Gen. Darryl A. Williams, commander of both U.S. Army Europe and Africa and NATO Allied Land Component Command, who challenged conference attendees to embrace convergence of their missions. \u201cThink through our interdependencies, think through our interlinkages, and think through how we come closer together as one NATO.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leaders from across the European and African theaters spoke on their command priorities and how they fit into the larger strategic picture, sharing ideas and solutions in presentations and in valuable one-on-one discussions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most valuable thing at this conference was the opportunity to establish context of the strategic environment, challenges and priorities,\u201d said U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Kisha Thomas, of U.S. Army NATO Brigade, \u201cas well as directly build relationships that could become force multipliers to shape positive outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n

General topics covered at the conference included USAREUR-AF\u2019s community environment, data dominance and upcoming exercises<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The conference also included multiple discussions on the Alliance\u2019s defense plans, which had been agreed to at the July NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, with an eye toward their executability.<\/p>\n

In a January 18 press briefing following a meeting of NATO Chiefs of Defense and invitee Sweden, which occurred at NATO headquarters in Brussels Belgium, Royal Netherlands Navy Adm. Rob Bauer, Chair of the NATO Military Committee, said, \u201cAllies are now actually working to maximize the executability of these new defense plans, but we need to do more to deter and defend any potential threat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gen. Williams also took the opportunity during the conference to present the Gen. Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award<\/a> to five winners. The award recognizes company-grade and junior warrant officers who demonstrate MacArthur\u2019s ideals of \u201cDuty, Honor, Country,\u201d and have a proven record of extraordinary performance, leadership, and achievement.<\/p>\n

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U.S. Army Europe and Africa held its annual Winter Commander\u2019s Conference\u2014which brought together commissioned and non-commissioned officers from NATO, Europe and Africa commands\u2014January 17-19, at Clay Kaserne in Wiesbaden, Germany. (Photo Credit: Courtesy) VIEW ORIGINAL WIESBADEN, Germany \u2013 U.S. Army Europe and Africa held its annual Winter Commander\u2019s Conference – which brought together commissioned and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97029,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97027","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\/97027","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=97027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97030,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97027\/revisions\/97030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}