JMTC’s new Driver’s Training Complex goes into high gear [Image 11 of 17]

GRAFENWOEHR, BY, GERMANY

10.04.2012

Photo by Michael Beaton 

U.S. Army Europe and Africa     

Mark Mann, Training Support System Division chief for TSAE, explains the importance on partnerships and dialogue between regional Training Support Divisions and tactical communities across Europe during the opening ceremonies of the JMTC's new Driver's Training Complex on the Grafenwoehr Training Area in Germany, Oct. 4, 2012. The completed complex is the result of a long and successful collaboration between Master Drivers Instructors and NCO’s of the Grafenwoehr Military Community working in collaboration with the Training Support Activity Europe also known as TSAE, the U.S. Army in Europe's Sustainable Range Program, the GTA Department of Public Works and the JMTC Safety Office. The Joint Multinational Training Command’s Training Support Activity Europe created the state-of-the-art advanced Driver’s Training complex, spread over a 7.6 km area, and consisting of a sequence of eleven obstacles designed to train soldiers navigating the complex in a variety of U.S. and multi-national military vehicles, from the common High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, better known as the HMMWV, to U.S. and NATO European model tanks. Each of the eleven obstacles replicates the dangers and challenges soldiers, Marines and airmen encounter when driving in diverse battlefield environments. The complex, a TSAE project, was brought in on time and on budget and included many improvements not originally conceived at the project's conception.

• Date Taken: 10.04.2012
• Date Posted: 10.09.2012 11:06
• Photo ID: 678262
• VIRIN: 121004-A-RT793-021
• Resolution: 1800x1200
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• Location: GRAFENWOEHR, BY, DE