Hohenfels, Germany: From 20 January to 4 February 2020, Leander-J participated as a UNHCR and human security advisor/instructor/role player with more than 5,400 service members from 16 nations during the Combined Resolve XIII exercise at U.S. Army Europe’s Grafenwöhr and Hohenfels training areas.
The purpose of CBR13 was to build readiness and interoperability, promote regional stability, and enhance relationships and trust among allied and partner militaries. The exercise provided a platform to apply NATO operational and logistical standards across several Allied and partner countries. These included multinational battlegroups’ combined response and mobility capacity, defensive readiness, and other aspects of interoperability across different units.
Coordinating with Observer Coach Trainers (OCT) for the Joint Multinational Readiness Center (JMRC) from the Psychological Operations (PSYOP) and Civil Affairs (CA), Leander-J collaborated with expert trainer-role players from Bavarian Red Cross and USAID. The two week exercise provided a chance to work closely with and advise and exchange approaches to plan for and anticipate, manage, and respond to the multiple variables of refugee and civilian populations in the battle space.
The NATO Standardization Office (NSO) regularly participates in a number of multinational exercises to ensure NATO’s standards are continuously applied, reviewed and integrated into programmes for the development of Allied military capabilities. NATO standardization is the development and implementation of concepts, doctrines and procedures to achieve and maintain the required levels of compatibility, interchangeability or commonality needed to achieve interoperability. Advancing interoperability and ensuring cooperation between national forces within NATO formations has become even more crucial in an era where Allied forces are more technologically developed, more complex and increasingly joined-up.
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