MAGAZINE
2022
2021 :
THE YEAR OF
THE CREVAL
By LANDCOM G7 Evaluation Team
AS 2020 came to a close , the LANDCOM G7 Evaluation team sat around a conference table in their basement offices . The coffee was brewed with care by the Italian Staff Officer , yet the atmosphere was one of relief mixed with anxiety . The 2020 season had been a successful year , but all eyes turned to the coming year , and the challenges felt daunting . The pandemic had made the operational environment even more complex and uncertain . Now the team had to plan and resource three corpslevel Combat Readiness Evaluations ( CREVALs ) while ramping up the education program that was decimated by course cancelations in 2020 . The foundation for the 2020 evaluation methodology laid out in Allied Command
Operations ( ACO ) Forces Standards Volume VII – Combat Readiness Evaluations for Land HQs and Units ( AFS vol . VII ) had not been adequately spread through the NATO Land Domain . More importantly , the team had just received a
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