WACKERNHEIM, Germany -- Elements of the U.S. Army Reserve's one-star command in Europe paired with host nation partners and non-governmental organizations to exercise humanitarian assistance skills during an exercise at Wackernheim Regional Range Complex, Sept. 14-16.
457th Civil Affairs Battalion's Charlie Company led the exercise -- known as Cobra Strike 18 -- the fifth iteration of an annual multi-national, multi-organizational, field training exercise in humanitarian assistance and populace control. The exercise included the participation of a Bundeswehr medical unit, the Red Cross and Technisches Hilfwerk - a civil protection organization controlled by the German federal government.
457th Civil Affairs Battalion falls under...
U.S. Army Reserve Pfc. Jason Hutchinson, a civil affairs specialist with Charlie Company, 457th Civil Affairs Battalion, Wackernheim, Germany, and American Red Cross volunteer Joshua Driscoll, Ramstein, Germany, assist role player civilians during a multiorganizational field training exercise in humanitarian assistance and populace control in collaboration with the Bundeswehr, THW, American Red Cross, and US Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, September 15. 457th CA BN falls under 361st CA BDE, located in Kaiserslautern, Germany, which is the U.S. Army Reserve's only forward deployed multifunctional civil affairs unit in Europe providing civil affairs; movement control; human resource; chemical, biological, nuclear and radiological;...
