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The United States Air Force transports the vehicles and equipment to Soldiers from the Minnesota Army National Guard’s 34th Red Bull Infantry Division as they conduct an emergency readiness deployment exercise in Jordan on May 3-10, 2019. The exercise demonstrated the division’s ability to set up a tactical command post and show their ability to perform command and control from a forward deployed location. As the lead element for Task Force Spartan, the 34th Red Bull Infantry Division works to strengthen partnerships in the region by building upon and leveraging existing relationships.
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Soldiers of the 34th Red Bull Infantry Division take their vehicles off a Lockheed C-130 Hercules to conduct an emergency deployment readiness exercise in Jordan on May 3-10, 2019. The exercise demonstrated the Division’s ability to set up a tactical command post and show their ability to perform command and control from a forward deployed location. As the lead element for Task Force Spartan, the 34th Red Bull Infantry Division works to strengthen partnerships in the region by building upon and leveraging existing relationships.
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Capt. Connor Thornton, along with Soldiers from 34th Red Bull Infantry Division set up a Deployable Rapid Assembly Shelter as their area of operation during an emergency deployment readiness exercise in Jordan on May 3- 10, 2019. The purpose of the exercise is to show the readiness of the 34th Infantry Division and to prepare a command and control from a forward location. As the lead element for Task Force Spartan, the 34th Red Bull Infantry Division works to strengthen partnerships in the region by building upon and leveraging existing relationships.
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U.S. Airmen 2nd Lt. Alec Fetzer and Staff Sgt. Garrett Valosek oversee an area where they conducted a fires mission in Jordan during an emergency deployment readiness exercise on May 3-10, 2019. The airmen are the United States Air Force tactical air control party attached to the division for the exercise and were able to provide the air to ground communication for fires missions. The purpose of this exercise is to set up a tactical command post and demonstrate the ability to perform command and control from a forward deployed location. The 82nd Expeditionary Air Support Operations Squadron is supporting U.S. Central Command’s Task Force Spartan throughout the area of responsibility.
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This Lockheed C-130 Hercules provides the transportation for the equipment from Kuwait to Jordan for the emergency deployment readiness exercise that occurred from May 3-10, 2019. The United States Air Force provided the transportation of not only the equipment but their personnel in order to conduct this exercise. The purpose of the exercise is to set up a tactical command post and show their ability to perform command and control from a forward deployed location. As the lead element for Task Force Spartan, the 34th Red Bull Infantry Division works to strengthen partnerships in the region by building upon and leveraging existing relationships.
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Spc. Dylan Huska, a Sipr Niper Access Point Very Small Aperture Terminal operator, of the 34th Red Bull Infantry Division, sets up SNAP, a deployable system designed to provide satellite communications in the Middle East during an emergency deployment readiness exercise in Jordan on May 3-10, 2019. This SNAP will allow the tactical command post have access to the strategic network at the location site of the EDRE. As the lead element for Task Force Spartan, the 34th Red Bull Infantry Division works to strengthen partnerships in the region by building upon and leveraging existing relationships.
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Brig. Gen. Michael Wickman, Deputy Commanding General of Operations and Brig. Gen. Taher Marashdih, director of operations for the Jordan Armed Forces were able to visit the area of operation for the emergency deployment readiness exercise in Jordan on May 3- 10, 2019. Maj. Joseph Sanganoo and Maj. Christopher Metzger, operations officers for Task Force Spartan gave an explanation to both senior leaders about the exercise and how it builds the partnership between the United States and Jordan. As the lead element for Task Force Spartan, the 34th Red Bull Infantry Division works to strengthen partnerships in the region by building upon and leveraging existing relationships.
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Task Force Spartan Soldiers pose for a group photo in Jordan during their emergency deployment readiness exercise from May 3-10, 2019. During the exercise, Soldiers set up a tactical command post and were able to show their ability to perform command and control from a forward deployed location. As the lead element for Task Force Spartan, the 34th Red Bull Infantry Division works to strengthen partnerships in the region by building upon and leveraging existing relationships.
By Spc. Samantha Petersen / Published May 23, 2019
JORDAN,
Task Force Spartan Soldiers from the 34th Red Bull Infantry Division and 18th Field Artillery Brigade conducted an Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise (EDRE) from May 3, 2019 to May 10, 2019 in Jordan. The exercise demonstrates the readiness of the Red Bull’s ability to assume command and control of a mission from a forward deployed location.
An EDRE entails moving equipment and personnel that make up a command post as well as establishing a new area of operation. The 34th ID was able to quickly establish the tactical command post, setup communications and conduct a communications exercise with higher and subordinate units operations, intelligence and fusion cells in an eight-day period.
During that period the 18th Field Artillery Brigade supported the mission with tactical command post contingency operations including fire missions and validating procedures. The 18th FAB fully integrated its’ assets into the division’s tactical command post and provided the ability for the forward location to conduct long range fires.
The Red Bulls set up a deployable rapid assembly shelter as well the secret and non-classified internet protocol router networks in preparation for the exercise that kicked off once all systems were operational. This allowed the Red Bulls to provided and utilized tactical access the strategic network though SIPR/NIPR Access point (SNAP) by validating their systems.
Brig. Gen. Michael Wickman, Deputy Commanding General of Operations and Brig. Gen. Taher Marashdih, director of operations for the Jordan Armed Forces were also able to visit the tactical command post and observe its’ operations and functionality.
The four-phase operation included planning, equipment and personnel movement to the forward location, set up and execution of the command post, and recovery operations. The training objectives included conducting operations as well as providing and maintaining communications throughout the duration of the exercise further validating Task Force Spartan’s ability to perform command and control from a remote location.
