FORSCOM in the news U.S. Army Forces Command Chaplains and chaplain assistants from across the Army gathered recently for the 2015 Strategic FRONTLINE Operational Readiness and April 24, 2015| Volume V, Issue 16 Training Assessment Forum. The I Corps commanding general discussed global CJOAX 15-01: “All Americans” leadership and the Corps’ mission with students Senior Leaders host bilateral airborne exercise from the Institute for Global Tucker on future training Engagement recently. An NCO from the 10th “In observing training and spending Mountain Division was time with senior leaders, I’ve figured recently named one of out what they want, and what First FORSCOM’s best sexual Army can give to them.” assault response – Lt. Gen. Michael S. Tucker coordinators. Commanding General, First Army First Battalion, 26th April 14, 2015, Rock Island Arsenal, Ill. Regiment, 2nd Brigade On Point Combat Team, , activated during a ceremony recently at Fort “Take Action to Prepare Campbell, Ky. and Register” Two Explosive Ordnance America’s PrepareAthon! Disposal companies (AP!) is a biannual national eliminated more than 75,000 campaign of action that Paratroopers of the and the British 16 Brigade conduct an assault on a pounds of explosives provides a recurring simulated enemy stronghold as the culminating event for Combined Joint Operational Access Exercise 15-01 on during operations in New opportunity to learn Fort Bragg, N.C., April 18, 2015. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jason Hull) Mexico recently. more about the hazards that threaten our communities By Staff Sgt. Jason Hull, 2nd BCT, ish battle group into one of the brigade combat and to practice actions that will help them minimize 82nd Airborne Division Public Affairs their vulnerabilities to disasters, including tornados, teams. Public Affairs units in action hurricanes, fires, floods, and earthquakes. The April 2015 FORT BRAGG, N.C. (April, 22, 2015) — Me- “The combined nature is the most obvious dif- AP! campaign key message encourages individuals to ticulously placed cards bearing symbols and ference,” said Col. Joseph Ryan, commander of “Take Action to Prepare and Register”. AP! culminates with acronyms lay across intersecting squares of the Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team. “This National PrepareAthon! Day on April 30, as a capstone parachute cord on the grey concrete of the pole one is working with our brothers from… the 3rd event that promotes preparedness activities across the barns. The wind drifts under the sheet metal Battalion, [The Parachute Regiment] of the 16 Air country. During this AP! campaign, the Army’s focus roof, unimpeded by walls, and pushes gently on Assault Brigade from the U.K.” remains steadfast: to educate, empower, and involve the the paper markers placed all over the map that is “This was a seven-day exercise beginning with Army community in preparedness activities that enhance laid out before hundreds of booted feet. a joint forcible entry.... that saw 2,100 Paratroop- the Army’s resiliency and increase the nation’s readines. One by one, officers and noncommissioned of- ers exiting from 23 aircraft, including two British ficers step onto the sand table and brief the Task aircraft, onto a drop zone,” said Lt. Col. Mike Financial Readiness Force Falcon staff, commanders and attached Shervington, commander of the British 3 PARA. enablers on the actions of the enemy, terrain and “That was the first major way-point that we had Financial Readiness enables weather of the area of operation, movements of to hit. Subsequent to them, we had a bunch of Soldiers and their Families to attain Company-group air assaults. We had a noncom- financial stability and flexibility friendly forces, areas of surveillance, and targets batant evacuation operation. We had some am- by avoiding the personal and for indirect fire weapons. 11th Public Affairs Detachment - Spc. Jamie Armstrong professional stressors of poor After more than two years of planning, the bushes. We had some [chemical and biological (right), logistics specialist, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st money management. Financial routine Joint Operational Access Exercise was weapon] operations. A whole level of low-level Cavalry Division, demonstrates the proper way to secure a litter Readiness protects Soldiers from now a Combined JOAX, as the 82nd Airborne Di- drills building up towards the end of the exer- on top of a HMMWV bearing simulated casualty Pfc. Amanda predatory and unscrupulous vision’s interoperability program reached a ma- cise being this battle-group attack to destroy this McLaughlin, human resources specialist, 3rd BCT, 1st Cav. Div., lenders and poor financial decisions. jor milestone in it’s efforts to incorporate a Brit- training camp.” April 9, 2015. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Matthew Thompson) TOP SHOTS Here are the best photos from FORSCOM Public Affairs professionals world-wide. For more photos and information, click these photos or visit army.mil/forscom

Right Combat engineers with 4th Battalion, 3rd Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, carry Bangalore torpedoes to a breach site during engineer qualification training on Fort Stewart, Ga., April 14, 2015. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. Joshua Laidacker) Left Spc. Steven N. Toporcer, 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, prepares his M4 Carbine Rifle for a functions check as part of the “Iron Knight Colonel Burt Challenge” April 9, 2015. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Gregory T. Summers)

Above Spc. Logan Edwards (left), and Spc. Analy Juarez, medics with C Company, 296th Brigade Support Above Airborne Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 319th Battalion, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, move a simulated casualty during triage Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division Artillery, fire a training at Yakima Training Center, Wash., April 11, 2015. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Justin Naylor) M119A3 howitzer during Combined Joint Operational Access Exercise Left Sgt. 1st Class Alan Simmons, observer-coach-trainer, 2nd Battalion, 306th Field Artillery Regiment, 15-01 on Fort Bragg, N.C., April 14, 2015. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. 188th Infantry Brigade, First Army Division East, looks through an aiming circle for howitzers during training Jason Hull) of Army Reserve units. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Stephanie Widemon)

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