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Exercise Steadfast Juncture 2010 - Phase III at Valdahon (France) the Informer JAN - JUN 2010 HQ FC MADRID CHANGE OF COMMAND Exercise Steadfast Juncture 2010 - Phase III at Valdahon (France) The Informer Serving the HQ FC Madrid IN THIS ISSUE Community Commander’s Message Lt Gen Alfredo Cardona Torres Commander Battle Staff Training (Steadfast Juncture 2010) LTC José Sanchez Requejo Managing Director Battle Staff Training Noble Jewel 2010 CPT Gianluca Manfredelli CPT Francisco Ortega-Villaizan Transition Parade Editors Headquarters Allied Force Command PO2 Jose M. López Madrid Change of Command SAmn Ignacio Reina Graphics Designers JLSG-2 Change of Command PO2 Jose M. López SAmn Ignacio Reina Photographers CIMIC Seminar NATO Linguistic Service Ninth edition. The Informer is an authorized unofficial publication. Its aim is to Allied Chief of Army Staff Talks (ACAST) inform the Headquarters personnel and their family members. Standby DJSE´s Operational Liaison and Opinions expressed in this publication are Reconnaissance Team receives its new those of the authors and do not reflect 4x4 vehicles official policy. Suggestions for articles, comments and NCOs´ Triathlon Mixed Team Competition contributions are welcome and should be directed to the Editor. The Editor reserves the right to revise Spanish National Support Element submissions. (Monographic) Public Affairs Office The Experience of a Forward Element Carretera Boadilla del Monte Public Affair Member on Deployment Km. 3,400 Pozuelo de Alarcón, 28223 Madrid (Spain) NCO’s Corner Phone: 91-512-6431 Fax: 91-512-6469 International Food Festival 2010 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Visitors Printed by CC-Land Madrid HQSG Graphics and Reproduction Section Prevention Measures in Summer 2 The Informer COMMANDER’S MESSAGE Three months ago I took command of HQ Allied Force Command Madrid. I received command just a few days after the transition from CC Land HQ to HQ Allied FC MD took formally place but, even so, I found a well experienced and established HQ that, in fact, has been already training and working with the new organization for some time before. This Headquarters has made a truly superb effort over the last few years, transforming its structure and incorporating and developing new concepts and procedures in a permanent process of evolution to adapt to the new challenges and demanding requirements. I have not been an outsider to this transformation process or unacquainted with the achievements of this Headquarters. From my previous assignment, I have had the chance to observe at first hand the high standard of professionalism among its personnel and the level of operational preparedness it has achieved. You have also worked on some other important aspects of the Alliance, among them the Military Cooperation, which includes all those activities regarding the promotion of peace, cooperation and understanding among many of the partner nations in Europe and the Mediterranean region. Now, members of Allied HQ Force Command Madrid, let me share some thoughts with you. With the last two exercises you have just carried out (Steadfast Juncture 10 and Noble Jewel 10) you have just successfully entered a new phase in the ten years of existence of this young but experienced and soundly established Headquarters. In a short period of time you have already demonstrated our operational capabilities as DJSE by taking part in the NRF rotations and in KFOR with the JLSG. This has been worked with the three Joint Commands trying to standardize procedures to work following the “plug and play” concept. But by no means have we come to the end of our road. I call on you, I entreat you to remain loyal to the Force Command motto “Further Beyond”, and to anticipate and be prepared to face future challenges by always looking ahead. 3 The Informer COMMANDER’S MESSAGE continuation We, at Force Command Madrid, shall continue our training to improve our performance in order to offer our experience and capabilities to the Joint Force Commands to support the operational responsibilities as deemed necessary. I want this HQ has and put into practise three main features to cope with the challenging situation we are going to face: flexibility, rationalization and anticipation. I want to have a dynamic and flexible HQ, either in its organization as well as its attitude, to immediately react to any circumstance that may arise. We need to rationalize all our actions in a way that we can achieve most goals or effects at the same time with less effort and actions. And finally, I ask from you anticipation, based on a good programming, founded on its tour on a good work in prospective and in an efficient Management Plan. I also encourage you to give the best of yourselves in fulfilling these other tasks related with regional stability and mutual understanding, comprehension and cooperation among nations. Thus, we will contribute to the common security architecture through the application of a comprehensive approach. All this have to be done adhering strictly to all the necessary security exigencies, which is a paramount in my style of Command. An exact compliance with every regulation and security matter in all fields will be permanently demanded to all. I call on you to continue to do your work with the same dedication and generosity you have shown up to now, and encourage you to maintain the same enthusiastic attitude, to keep up your teamwork and cooperative approach and to maintain, as Force Command Madrid, the “esprit de corps” you have cultivated as CC-Landers. You can rely on my full support in doing so. I pledge my full commitment and my professional skills, efforts and energy to Force Command Madrid to attain those goals. Alfredo Cardona Torres Lieutenant General, ESP A 4 EXERCISES The Informer STEADFAST JUNCTURE 2010 CERTIFIED! Brunssum led the whole activity through its Main and the Forward Element, which was Written by CPT Gianluca MANFREDELLI provided by Allied Force Command Madrid. Allied Force Command MADRID Public The Land, Maritime and Air Component Affairs Commands were respectively played by the EUROCORPS, FRMARFOR and CC The STEADFAST Series Exercises AIR IZMIR. Along with the above mentioned are recurrent drills aimed at developing Components, Madrid Joint Logistic Support NATO expeditionary capabilities. One of Group and German POTF, SOCC and the most significant activities of this type is CBRN provided assets for the Exercise. STEADFAST JUNCTURE 2010 (SFJE10), a Command Post Exercise focused on Despite the fact that SFJE10 was training and certifying the NATO Response not actually the first NRF Exercise for the Force rotation 15 (NRF 15) Command and training audience, some new elements Control structure, contributed to through the make the whole Deployable Joint event far more Staff Element challenging and (DJSE) concept. exciting. T h e F i r s t , Exercise was the scenario, performed at three fictitious as levels: Strategic usual, and (Allied Command placed in O p e r a t i o n s ) , an Eastern Operational (Joint African region, Force Command) envisaged the and Tactical d e p l o y m e n t ( C o m p o n e n t of the NATO Commands). Such multiple levels implied Response Force (named NATO Interim multiple locations: the execution phase of Multinational Force, NIMFOR) as an the Exercise was, in fact, simultaneously entry Force in charge of performing a UN- conducted in Brunssum, Netherlands; mandated Crisis Response Operation Valdahon and Toulon, France; and in Ankara (CRO), under Chapter VII of the Charter. and Izmir, Turkey, from 5 to 15 May 2010. Then, the mission, aimed at stabilizing Considering the aim, extent and the region and at enabling the efficient characteristics of the Exercise, the training delivery of humanitarian aid. Such a context audience for SFJE10 was definitely robust implied specific, demanding tasks, such as and well articulated. In accordance with land and sea patrolling, weapon registration, the DJSE concept (one Headquarters, process implementation monitoring, two locations) Joint Force Command reacting to airspace violations, Search and Alfredo Cardona Torres Lieutenant General, ESP A 5 The Informer EXERCISES STEADFAST JUNCTURE 2010 Rescue, humanitarian assistance, natural injection, any reaction, any posture, and and artificial disaster response, emergency any decision drove participants to deal with management and crisis communications. every ramification of a political, legal, and communicative nature, therefore forcing the Special Staff, a team of skilled personal advisors to the Force Commander, to bear a continuous and heavy workload. Besides the training and operational points of view, the experience prompts a noteworthy logistical remark: The Forward Element worked throughout the whole Exercise in the CP 156, an innovative structure conceived to house a Headquarters deployed for more than six In all these missions, the entire months in the most extreme conditions. training audience was called upon to Allied Force Command Madrid was not new respond to the numerous injections the to such an experience, having previously Exercise Control provided through several used CP 156 during Exercise NOBLE skilled role-players. Madrid DJSE 2 in LIGHT 2008 with its Joint Logistic Support particular, as a Forward Element of the Group. This time, a larger number of Joint Force Command, reacted excellently people to accommodate and a more varied to a multifaceted spectrum of activities: The training audience allowed the structure to Joint Coordination Centre, by appropriately display the full scope of its capabilities. planning and tasking; the Situation Cell, by Luckily, six months by far exceeds constantly providing situational awareness; the required period for an NRF certification and the Theatre Engagement Cell, by Exercise. Eight days after the start of the effectively interacting with the regional Exercise, ENDEX was reached and, along authorities, such as institutional, political with it, certification for NRF 15. and military leaders and International Governmental and Non-Governmental Well done! Organizations.
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