Exercise Arrcade Fusion 2014

RAF ST MAWGAN, ABE, UNITED KINGDOM

11.15.2014

Courtesy Photo

173rd Airborne Brigade

Soldiers from the 173rd Brigade Support Battalion have been supporting Exercise Arrcade Fusion at RAF St. Mawgan, Cornwall, UK, during November 2014. The soldiers have travelled from their base in Vicenza, Italy, as the US Army Europe contribution to the exercise. Whilst on exercise the soldiers will play the part of infantry units, reacting to, and providing feed back for, the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps headquarters during the ARRCs main exercise of the year. The exercise also provides the 173rd with valuable training in a multinational joint operations environment. Exercise Arrcade Fusion 14 sees Headquarters Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (HQ ARRC) tested whilst it commands two divisional and one brigade headquarters from across Europe and North America. The exercise swells the 450-strong headquarters to close to 1,000 personnel and is designed to ensure the Innsworth-based NATO headquarters is ready for any potential short-notice call-up it may receive in 2015. Participating in this exercise are units and troops from ARRC Partner Nations Czech Republic, Canada, Italy, the United States, as well as personnel from Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, and others – all-in-all totaling some 2000 military and civilian personnel. Additionally, FUSION will present the headquarters with an opportunity to further develop training the ARRC’s capability as a NATO Force Structure Joint Task Force Headquarters. An operational concept conceived by NATO, the JTF builds a land-centric headquarters, like the ARRC, into an element capable of commanding an entire military theatre of operations. For ARRC, this means adding both air and maritime personnel to its structure so that it can command air, land, and sea troops.

• Date Taken: 11.15.2014
• Date Posted: 11.06.2015 11:22
• Photo ID: 2272331
• VIRIN: 141115-A-ZZ123-001
• Resolution: 4863x3120
• Size: 6.13 MB
• Location: RAF ST MAWGAN, ABE, GB