WEBVTT 00:00.009 --> 00:02.319 So , austere challenge 24 and the fifth 00:02.329 --> 00:04.496 core war fighter exercise are actually 00:04.496 --> 00:07.309 two separate and distinct ex exercises . 00:08.020 --> 00:10.850 AC 24 is a U com and usaf 00:11.279 --> 00:13.710 exercise that challenges the decision 00:13.720 --> 00:15.831 making processes at the strategic and 00:15.840 --> 00:18.062 the operational level . The war fighter 00:18.062 --> 00:19.951 exercise for Fifth Corps has four 00:19.951 --> 00:22.062 subordinate divisions and a multitude 00:22.062 --> 00:24.173 of separate brigades that support the 00:24.173 --> 00:26.173 decision making of a tactical level 00:26.173 --> 00:28.340 commander . And we're tied into that . 00:28.340 --> 00:30.396 We're aligned with the Estonia , the 00:30.396 --> 00:32.396 first Estonian Division as a , as a 00:32.396 --> 00:34.507 member of that fifth Corps conducting 00:34.507 --> 00:36.673 tactical level exercises . And so what 00:36.673 --> 00:39.310 you get is this series of decisions 00:39.319 --> 00:41.319 that have a strategic to a tactical 00:41.319 --> 00:43.541 level effect and we get the opportunity 00:43.541 --> 00:45.430 to kind of reflect and review and 00:45.430 --> 00:47.597 identify what worked and what didn't . 00:47.597 --> 00:49.580 Uh My name is Vets . Uh Lieutenant 00:49.590 --> 00:52.049 Colonel , I'm a chief of G three shop 00:52.060 --> 00:54.116 operations for the Estonian Division 00:54.116 --> 00:56.610 staff . And uh during the exercise war 00:56.619 --> 00:58.979 fighter , I was mainly responsible for 00:58.990 --> 01:00.879 uh command and control of current 01:00.879 --> 01:02.879 operations of Estonian Division for 01:02.879 --> 01:05.400 Estonian Division . Um We had multiple 01:05.410 --> 01:07.743 objectives for the war fighter exercise . 01:07.743 --> 01:10.180 Firstly , to practice uh conducting 01:10.190 --> 01:13.360 division operations in a core framework 01:13.629 --> 01:16.150 and I feel like it went extremely well . 01:16.160 --> 01:18.900 We had a lot of uh uh positive 01:19.269 --> 01:21.959 experiences , new experiences for us 01:22.160 --> 01:24.104 and uh found the ways to integrate 01:24.104 --> 01:26.610 ourselves properly into the US Fifth 01:26.620 --> 01:28.889 Corps framework . Uh In addition , we 01:28.900 --> 01:31.519 practiced uh cooper operation of uh 01:32.180 --> 01:34.760 between different partner nation . So 01:34.769 --> 01:38.040 as uh British troops were involved , uh 01:38.319 --> 01:40.410 uh Ln OS from other partner nations 01:40.419 --> 01:42.510 also . So working around different 01:42.519 --> 01:44.519 national caveats and providing some 01:44.519 --> 01:46.779 additional capabilities to your 01:46.790 --> 01:49.160 partners uh was an extremely uh 01:49.169 --> 01:51.391 valuable experience for us and probably 01:51.391 --> 01:53.502 for other participants as well . Hi , 01:53.502 --> 01:55.725 I'm Lieutenant Colonel Drew Rosso . I'm 01:55.725 --> 01:57.947 the DC O of operations for Fourth S fab 01:57.947 --> 01:59.891 out of Fort Carson , Colorado , uh 01:59.891 --> 02:01.725 currently here in , in Tallinn , 02:01.725 --> 02:01.199 Estonia , working with the first 02:01.209 --> 02:03.650 infantry division uh from the Estonian 02:03.660 --> 02:05.882 uh military . Uh This is actually the , 02:05.882 --> 02:07.549 the third exercise that we've 02:07.549 --> 02:09.771 participated with uh with the Estonians 02:09.771 --> 02:11.882 in uh including uh so they just stood 02:11.882 --> 02:14.550 up last January and we participated in 02:14.559 --> 02:16.899 uh the multinational multi core , multi 02:16.919 --> 02:19.086 domain war fighting exercise , command 02:19.086 --> 02:21.550 post exercise . Uh Last May and June uh 02:21.559 --> 02:23.670 and then participated again with them 02:23.670 --> 02:25.869 in uh November , DEC uh in October , 02:25.880 --> 02:28.059 November of this last year in uh in 02:28.070 --> 02:31.160 Fifth Corps , uh CPX three , which 02:31.169 --> 02:33.399 built up towards uh the current Austere 02:33.410 --> 02:35.354 Challenge which is Fifth Corps War 02:35.354 --> 02:37.580 Fighter . Uh The War fighter is a , is 02:37.589 --> 02:40.419 a uh multinational exercise uh in which 02:40.429 --> 02:42.460 we're pulling together uh for this 02:42.470 --> 02:44.526 exercise we have the , the Estonians 02:44.526 --> 02:47.020 American . Uh we have uh the British 02:47.350 --> 02:49.779 and uh here within the Estonian , we 02:49.789 --> 02:52.399 have , we have French officers and uh 02:52.630 --> 02:54.408 really , it's , it's a very big 02:54.408 --> 02:56.352 multinational exercise in which we 02:56.352 --> 02:59.410 display uh really nato's ability to 02:59.419 --> 03:01.809 fight and uh large scale ground combat 03:01.820 --> 03:04.820 operations uh across Europe . I'm 03:04.830 --> 03:07.139 squadron leader Valentina Layoff . I am 03:07.149 --> 03:09.710 from the UK airport operations squadron 03:09.830 --> 03:12.199 have been embedded with um the Estonian 03:12.210 --> 03:14.321 Division for about eight months now . 03:14.321 --> 03:16.000 Uh mostly working in airline 03:16.009 --> 03:18.619 integration um with a focus on building 03:18.630 --> 03:21.369 their nascent capability with the joint 03:21.380 --> 03:23.658 air ground integration center , the Ji . 03:24.009 --> 03:26.231 There's a lot of things that we need to 03:26.231 --> 03:28.398 take back um lessons from working with 03:28.398 --> 03:30.509 Estonia . They're working with a very 03:30.509 --> 03:32.731 small team of people . They've got very 03:32.731 --> 03:34.953 limited resource , but they are working 03:34.953 --> 03:36.953 with new and innovative ways to get 03:36.953 --> 03:39.210 around that problem . Um We're able to 03:39.220 --> 03:42.100 take ideas from the UK and from the US 03:42.309 --> 03:45.360 and other partners to actually look at 03:45.369 --> 03:47.258 the way we do things make it more 03:47.258 --> 03:49.869 survivable , more interoperable so that 03:49.880 --> 03:51.824 we can work together better in the 03:51.824 --> 03:54.270 future . Good morning . I'm Captain 03:54.279 --> 03:56.446 Clement , working in the army Chief of 03:56.446 --> 03:58.720 staff , communication service in France 03:58.729 --> 04:00.970 and in the air , in a war fighter . I 04:00.979 --> 04:03.339 working in Jina and Jit in the current 04:03.350 --> 04:07.059 operation . My daily basis tasks are to 04:07.070 --> 04:10.529 monitor things related to cynical 04:10.600 --> 04:14.229 civil affair and to be able to 04:14.240 --> 04:16.351 provide some solution for the general 04:16.359 --> 04:18.859 commander . If there is any need to the 04:18.869 --> 04:21.339 conflict and to maintain our freedom of 04:21.350 --> 04:24.290 maneuver on the ground . And in this 04:24.299 --> 04:26.510 task , I am working with everybody 04:26.519 --> 04:28.575 because I know I need to cross check 04:28.575 --> 04:31.170 information with intelligence to have 04:31.179 --> 04:34.769 some to be sure and check things with J 04:34.850 --> 04:37.470 and working with all the nationalities 04:37.480 --> 04:39.640 are in there . And that is a really 04:39.649 --> 04:41.816 interesting part of war fighting . You 04:41.816 --> 04:43.816 know , it's like we are all working 04:43.816 --> 04:47.619 together . I got a UK liaison national 04:47.630 --> 04:50.670 officer at my left . I got a UJ 04:51.720 --> 04:54.570 on my right . I got an Estonian boss in 04:54.579 --> 04:57.070 front of me . And this is what is 04:57.079 --> 05:00.890 making the highlight and the taste of 05:00.899 --> 05:03.010 this war fighter to be able to be 05:03.019 --> 05:05.241 better together . Again , it's about to 05:05.241 --> 05:07.589 be better together . We can share our 05:08.059 --> 05:11.929 way to do our spirit and be able 05:11.940 --> 05:15.269 to say , translate , 05:15.279 --> 05:17.630 translate that uh at home . And then 05:17.640 --> 05:19.760 after that being able to uh to war 05:19.769 --> 05:22.790 together , NATO stronger together 05:22.799 --> 05:23.529 otherwise .