Preparing To Be A Joint Task Force Headquarters
During TOLL14 , multiple aviation assets conducted maneuvers in participation .
The last exercise , TOLL14 , set up in October , was based on a NATO high intensity operation scenario and consisted a Command Post exercise combined with live fires and manoeuvring . Exercise TOLL
achieving JTF full operational capability ( FOC ) in 2016 and achieve NATO certification in the spring of 2017 .
As such , this exercise is linked to two others ( CITADEL BONUS 2015 and CITA- DEL JAVELIN 2016 ) that enable the transformation . The aim of CITADEL KLEBER 2015 is to conduct Smaller Joint Operations to include Crisis Response , Joint Logistic
Support Group , Counter-insurgency / security and Reception , Staging , Onward Movement and Integration ( RSOMI ) operations within a complex environment .
Rapid Reaction Corps-France is literally on its way of becoming a JTF HQ , in the benefit of NATO by 2017 .
French Land Forces conducted maneuvers during TOLL14
TOLL14
is indeed a French Forces joint and combined exercise set up every three years that aims at practicing joint fires , targeting , air coordination and air defence .
Here again , RRC-FRA designed an ICC-L HQ that commands the operations on the field .
Next exercise to be conducted by Rapid Reaction Corps-France is CITADEL KLEBER 2015 , in March . This exercise is designed to bring the HQ to initial operational capability ( IOC ) as a JTF level headquarters , as part of the larger objective of
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