Dynamic Front 19 to Integrate Multinational Fires Capabilities

Photo By Spc. Rolyn Kropf | U. S. paratroopers assigned to A Battery, 4th Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade along with Czech, Slovakian and Polish soldiers stand in formation for a range safety briefing during exercise Dynamic Front 2019 at Torun, Poland, Feb. 28, 2019. Exercise Dynamic Front 19 includes approximately 3,200 service members from 27 nations who are observing or participating from Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany; Riga, Latvia; and Torun, Poland; during March 2-9, 2019. Dynamic Front is an annual U.S. Army Europe exercise focused on the readiness and interoperability of U.S. Army, joint service, and allied and partner nations’ artillery and fire support working together in a multinational environment. (U. S. Army photo by Spc. Rolyn Kropf)  

GRAFENWOEHR, BY, GERMANY

03.01.2019

Story by Lacey Justinger 

7th Army Training Command

GRAFENWOEHR, Germany – Approximately 3,200 participants from 27 nations will take part in operations during the live-fire portion of exercise Dynamic Front 19, March 2-9, 2019, at the U.S. Army’s Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany; as well as in Riga, Latvia; and Torun, Poland.

The exercise is designed to increase readiness, lethality, and interoperability by exercising allied and partner nation ability to integrate joint fires in a multinational environment at both the operational and tactical levels.

Approximately 1,700 participants will come from the United States and approximately 1,500 service members are scheduled to participate from our allied and partner nations.

Nation participation ranges from observers to service members operating fires equipment in the field, including representatives from Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The exercise will involve about 100 artillery systems from participating countries.

Dynamic Front 19 will provide an intense, realistic environment that takes advantage of U.S. Army Europe and 7th Army Training Command’s unique training resources to seamlessly coordinate fires in support of U.S. and allied operations.

• Date Taken: 03.01.2019
• Date Posted: 03.01.2019 07:35
• Story ID: 312432
• Location: GRAFENWOEHR, BY, DE