The U.S. Army’s European Rotational Force will participate in a major exercise alongside NATO allies and partner-nation forces at the Army’s Grafenwoehr and Hohenfels Training Areas in southeastern Germany, Aug. 8 to Sept. 15, 2016.
Exercise Combined Resolve VII will include more than 3,500 participants from Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Ukraine, and the United States.
The 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division (Raiders), stationed at Fort Stewart, Georgia, is the brigade combat team designated as the Army’s regionally-allocated force for the U.S. European Command.
This exercise is designed to provide the Raiders Brigade with multinational training and partnership opportunities that will enhance the flexibility, agility and ability to better operate alongside NATO allies and partners in Europe. Combined Resolve VII is a preplanned exercise that is not part of Operation Atlantic Resolve.
Combined Resolve VII will be conducted in four phases. The first phase beginning Aug. 8 and ending Sept.15, 2016 includes continuing efforts in planning and coordination. The second phase will include a Command Post Exercise and a Combined Arms Live-Fire Exercise on the Grafenwoehr Training Area. The exercise will then move to the Hohenfels Training Area for a two-week combat training center rotation. Once complete, the rotational force will begin preparation for movement back to the United States.
As 7th Army Training Command's Joint Multinational Readiness Center incorporated the Skolkan scenario during Combined Resolve VII and Allied Spirit V, it worked to create a realistic training environment.
The recently completed Combined Resolve VII and the current exercise, Allied Spirit V, use NATO's Joint Warfare Center's Skolkan scenario.
1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division cased their colors during a ceremony held at Hohenfels Training Area, after Combined Resolve ended.
Soldiers with the Texas National Guard's 36th Infantry Division participated in Combined Resolve VII to prepare to deploy their headquarters to replace the 36th Inf. Div. in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
From part-time to full-time in a blink of an eye - at least that's what it seems like for many members of Alpha Company, 3rd Battalion, 156th Infantry Regiment of the Louisiana Army National Guard.
In today's Army anticipating your enemy's next move is crucial for proper preparation. To train to do this, an opposing force is required.
The 432nd Civil Affairs Battalion conducted civil affairs operations during exercise Combined Resolve VII alongside multinational partners.
Polish Soldiers from the 6th Mechanized Company and their U.S. Army infantry allies conducted a simulated armored assault against American Soldiers role-playing an opposing force.
On today's battlefield, approximately four to five support soldiers back up each combat-arms soldier, especially in an armored brigade task force.
Soldiers from three allied nations met at Hohenfels Training Area to train on vehicle recovery tactics on Aug. 31, 2016, as part of the ongoing multinational exercise Combined Resolve VII.
Air-to-ground combat is a tried and true method of controlling a battlefield, especially when multinational components are working together.
The mission readiness of the U.S. Army Europe's Regionally Allocated Force was put to the test during Combined Resolve VII's Combined Arms Live Fire Exercise at the Grafenwoehr Training Area, Aug. 16-18.
The U.S. Army's European Rotational Force will participate in a major exercise alongside NATO Allies and partner-nation forces at the Army's Grafenwoehr and Hohenfels Training Areas in southeastern Germany, April 4 – May 25, 2016.
Exercise Combined Resolve VI is designed to exercise the U.S. Army’s regionally allocated force to the U.S. European Command area of responsibility with multinational training at all echelons.
Approximately 570 participants from 5 NATO and European partner nations will participate. The exercise involves around 500 U.S. troops and 70 NATO and European partner nations.
Combined Resolve VI is a preplanned exercise that does not fall under Operation Atlantic Resolve.
This exercise will train participants to function together in a joint, multinational and integrated environment and train U.S. rotational forces to be more flexible, agile and to better operate alongside our NATO Allies.
Combined Resolve is a series of U.S. Army Europe exercises designed to train participants to function together in a multinational and integrated environment and train U.S. Army rotational forces to Europe to be more flexible, agile and better able to operate alongside allies and partners in the region.
Combined Resolve V will feature more than 4,600 participants from 10 NATO allies including Albania, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Slovenia, and the United States, and three partner nations - Georgia, Montenegro and Serbia.
The 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division (Raiders), stationed on Fort Stewart, Georgia, is the U.S. Army's regionally-aligned brigade to Europe and will participate in Combined Resolve V as the primary U.S. training unit. The 4th Infantry Division Mission Command Element will provide higher command and control functions for the exercise.
The brigade will use the European Activity Set during the exercise, a combined-arms set of tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and military equipment pre-positioned in Grafenwoehr to outfit U.S. Army units rotating into Europe for training or operational missions.
The exercise will include gunnery certification, maneuver training, and live-fire training. Combined Resolve V will culminate with a combined-arms, live-fire exercise featuring live, virtual and constructive training techniques.
The 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team wrapped up exercise Combined Resolve V with a Combined Arms Live-Fire Exercise in Grafenwoehr, Germany.
After eight months of planning and coordination for the final culminating event for exercise Combined Resolve V, it ended with a combined arms live-fire exercise.
One of the key aspects of exercises like Combined Resolve V is the multinational training that occurs, and the multinational opposition forces who enable this training.
Norwegian soldiers provided support during the training exercise Combined Resolve V with what they call Military Intelligence Support Team (MIST).
Although World War I officially ended, June 28, 1919, the fighting had stopped several months earlier, "…when an armistice…between the Allied nations and Germany went into effect on the 11th hour of the eleventh day of the 11th month."
Special Operational Forces (SOF) from the U.S., Bulgaria and France recently partnered with the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, out of Fort Stewart, Georgia, during exercise Combined Resolved V.
As the fifth iteration of this series, one might expect it to be a routine, tactics-focused exercise. Instead, Combined Resolve at JMRC intentionally defies this expectation.
Critical to successful traininig events in Europe is the inclusion of special enabler units from the Army National Guard and Reserve. Maj. Ivan Hong, Bravo Company, 407th Civil Affairs commander, was quick to point out the value his troops bring to Combined Resolve V, and to any battlefield.
For American Soldiers stationed in Europe, a highlight of their assignments are often the opportunities to train alongside NATO Allies.
Following a brush with the enemy, and reacting to the unforeseen juxtaposition, two Stryker M1135 Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Reconnaissance Vehicles, or NBCRVs, scoured the countryside testing for chemical biological radiological and nuclear (CBRN) agents.
Nine Soldiers from the 1st Armored brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division competed in the European Best Squad Competition 15 at Grafenwoehr, Germany.
The EIB is designed to increase an infantryman's level of physical fitness, small unit leadership ability and technical skills. Soldiers go through several lanes as they are tested on different aspects to become an expert.
Joint terminal attack controllers (JTAC), participate in Combined Resolve V, a U.S. Army Europe exercise designed to train participants to function together in a multinational and integrated environment at the Grafenwoehr and Hohenfels Training Area in southeastern Germany.
Two separate teams of soldiers converged on the town of Telishli. One team split off to secure the perimeter of the town, while the other maneuvered through the heart of the town.
Senior leaders from around the Army visited exercise Combined Resolve V.
The Serbian Army has participated in training exercises in Bulgaria, Ukraine, Macedonia and now Germany. This year, the 2nd Brigade, 21st Infantry Battalion, out of Kralijevo, Serbia, partakes in exercise Combined Resolve V.
Five German Leopard IIA5 tanks not so quietly rolled out of the Parsberg train station and made their way to the Hohenfels Training Center to take part in exercise Combined Resolve V.
The 405th Army Field Support Battalion is preparing Soldiers assigned to the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division out of Fort Stewart, Georgia, to draw from the U.S. Army's European Activity Set-Grafenwoehr, in support of exercise Combined Resolve V, scheduled to run Sept. 22, to Nov. 21, 2015 at the Grafenwoehr and Hohenfels Training Areas.
The U.S. Army will exercise its regionally-aligned forces to Europe at the Grafenwoehr and Hohenfels training areas during Exercise Combined Resolve V, Sept. 22 through Nov. 21.
The U.S. Army will exercise its regionally aligned forces to Europe at the Grafenwoehr and Hohenfels training areas during exercise Combined Resolve IV, May 1-June 26.
Combined Resolve is a series of bi-annual U.S. Army Europe exercises designed to train participants to function together in a multinational and integrated environment and train U.S. Army rotational forces to Europe to be more flexible, agile and better able to operate alongside Allies and partners in the region.
Combined Resolve IV will feature more than 4,700 participants from 10 NATO Allies including Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Italy, Latvia, Romania, Slovenia, the United States, and 3 partner nations of Moldova, Montenegro and Serbia.
Combined Resolve III will also use the Army's European Activity Set, a group of combat equipment and vehicles pre-positioned at the Grafenwoehr Training Area to outfit and support rotational forces when they arrive in Europe. The brigade will use the European Activity Set during the exercise, a combined-arms set of tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and military equipment pre-positioned in Grafenwoehr to outfit U.S. Army units rotating into Europe for training or operational missions.
Soldiers assigned to 3rd Combined Arms Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment out of Fort Stewart, Georgia, conducted an equipment draw of the U. S. Army's European Activity Set April 21-22, at the Grafenwoehr Training Area for their upcoming participation in Combined Resolve IV.
The first phase of the exercise will take place in Hohenfels and focus on maneuver training. Units will then transition to the Grafenwoehr Training Area to conduct live-fire training. Combined Resolve IV will culminate with a combined-arms live-fire exercise featuring live, virtual and constructive training techniques.
The U.S. Army's European Rotational Force will participate in a major exercise alongside NATO allies and partner-nation forces at the Army's Grafenwoehr and Hohenfels Training Areas in southeastern Germany, Oct - Nov, 2014.
The 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division (Ironhorse), stationed at Ft. Hood, Texas, is the brigade combat team designated as the Army's regionally-aligned force for the U.S. European Command. 4th Infantry Division will exercise command and control as the Division Headquarters RAF for EUCOM — the first time an actual division headquarters assigned as the RAF to Europe will participate.
Combined Resolve III is designed to provide the Ironhorse Brigade with multinational training and partnership opportunities that will enhance the flexibility, agility and ability to better operate alongside NATO allies and partners in Europe.
The first phase of Combined Resolve III will include gunnery training at the Army's Grafenwoehr Training Area. The exercise will then move to the Hohenfels Training Area for a combat maneuver training before returning to Grafenwoehr of the culminating multinational, live-fire exercise that will blend virtual, simulated and maneuver forces to replicate a complex combat environment.
Combined Resolve III will also use the Army's European Activity Set, a group of combat equipment and vehicles pre-positioned at the Grafenwoehr Training Area to outfit and support rotational forces when they arrive in Europe. The set includes the most updated versions of the Army's M1A2 Abrams tanks and M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles.
Somewhere deep in the woods of Bavaria, an old beast wakes up. Its hooves are steel and its body is a fortress. Its head sits upon a swivel, its gaze a stream of rockets. And as its metal gears grind to life, the thing bellows a mighty roar, then charges through the forest.
The Army Field Support Battalion-Germany conducted the second equipment issue from its newly established European Activity Set to Soldiers from the 2-12th Combined Arms Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division.
Every realistic training mission needs someone to play the bad guy. Members of 3rd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment, reveled in the task here at the Hohenfels Training Center Nov. 3.
Think of these guys as being the set of eyes and ears for the combat aircraft pilots to deliver their payload. The joint terminal attack controllers, or JTACs, are the forward observers who control and call in attack aircraft.
Members of the Danish Royal Guard moved to a new location after receiving indirect fire in one of the furthest corners of what is referred to as "the box" during a training exercise here at Joint Multinational Readiness Center Nov. 4.
The Armenian forces received the order to take the hill. Working with the Serbian army, and with little assistance from an American civil affairs detachment, they did just that.
Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, Gen. Raymond Odierno, got a first-hand view of training the Army's regionally aligned forces to Europe during a visit here to exercise Combined Resolve III.
Moldovan special forces trained here Oct. 23 with instruction from Bulgarian pilots and guidance from American observers.
U.S. Army tanks from the European Activity Set are riding the rails from Grafenwoehr to the Hohenfels Training Area to participate in exercise Combined Resolve III.
The U.S. Army's European Rotational Force will participate in a major exercise alongside NATO allies and partner-nation forces at the Army's Grafenwoehr and Hohenfels Training Areas in southeastern Germany, October and November, 2014.
Combined Resolve II is a U.S. Army Europe-led, multi-national exercise at the Joint Multinational Training Command's Hohenfels and Grafenwoehr Training Areas (Germany), May 15-Jun. 30, 2014. More than 4,000 military members from 15 NATO and European partner nations will focus on maintaining and enhancing interoperability during unified land operations in a decisive action training environment. Participating nations include Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and the United States.
Combined Resolve II marks the first major combat training center rotation for the European Rotational Force (ERF). The ERF consists of a combined arms battalion of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division (1/1 CD) – the U.S. Army’s brigade combat team Regionally Aligned Force for Europe. 1/1 CD personnel are scheduled to deploy at least twice in 2014 to Europe from their home at Ft. Hood, Texas, to participate in training with allied and partner-nation forces. The 1/1 CD will also serve as the U.S. contingent of the NATO Response Force (NRF). In addition to Combined Resolve, the ERF is also scheduled to participate in NATO-led exercises in France (Rochambeau) and Latvia (Saber Strike).
Combined Resolve II will also mark the first use of the European Activity Set (EAS). The EAS is a battalion-sized set of U.S. Army vehicles and equipment pre-positioned at the Grafenwoehr Training Area for the use of the European Rotational Force. The EAS includes the most up-to-date equipment in the Army inventory, including the M1A2 Sep v2 Abrams tank and the M2A3 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle. The 1/1 CD combined arms battalion will draw the EAS equipment in Grafenwoehr, and use it for training or contingency operations while deployed as the European Rotational Force. The EAS ensures the ERF can rapidly and efficiently deploy, and ensures U.S. allies and partners are training alongside the full spectrum of U.S. Army systems in Europe.
Spc. Nicholas Rapcan, a combat engineer with B Company, 91st Brigade Engineer Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, came to Germany in May with his unit to participate in Combined Resolve II.
Georgia, situated just south of Russia in the Caucasus region of Eastern Europe, has taken on a unique role in Combined Resolve II. For the first time, a Georgian commander is leading a battalion of multinational forces during a combat training center rotation here.
In remote Bavaria, the sound of simulated battle echoes. The armies of the U.S. and Romania join forces to train. At the heart of the training lies one of the U.S. Army's most versatile forces.
As part of Combined Resolve II, U.S. Army Europe hosts allies and partners from 14 European countries training for future operations.
Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh focused on the implementation of U.S. Army Europe's regionally aligned forces concept while observing Soldiers and NATO and European partners at exercise Combined Resolve II.
As a prelude to exercise Combined Resolve II, the Joint Multinational Readiness Center hosted a Capabilities Day, May 17, as a way of developing technical and tactical interoperability among NATO and partner-nation forces in Europe.
The U.S. Ambassador to Germany, the Honorable John B. Emerson, visited the Hohenfels Training Area yesterday with members of the German Parliament
The U.S. Army's European Rotational Force will participate in a major exercise alongside NATO allies and partner-nation forces at the Army's Grafenwoehr and Hohenfels Training Areas in southeastern Germany, May 1-June 30, 2014.
More than 50 U.S. Army M1A2 Abrams Main Battle Tanks and M2A3/M3A3 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles rolled into the Grafenwoehr Training Area this week as the final shipment of the European Activity Set.