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ASSURANCE IN EUROPE
USAREUR hope to form the kinds of partnerships
that prove resilient through uncertainty, as demonstrated by Operation Atlantic Resolve. USAREUR
conducts partnership training at every opportunity
and at all levels, most notably at the Joint Maneuver
Training and Readiness Centers in Grafenwoehr
and Hohenfels, Germany. This creates a foundation
that allows USAREUR to practice working together
and builds interoperability throughout its multinational team. This is also the key to developing a skill
set that focuses on allowing the USAREUR team
to seamlessly integrate wherever called upon, or to
walk off an aircraft and immediately begin partnership training.
USAREUR prevents and protects as a member
of a larger team. As the Army Service component
command for USEUCOM, USAREUR is separate
from NATO, though it fills a vitally important role
in the transformation of partnered NATO forces.
USAREUR’s goal is to be a manifestation of a continued U.S. commitment to stability on the European
continent, while offering a number of unique capabilities to support NATO objectives.
Leveraging the USAREUR staff, assigned forces,
and longstanding partnerships is the way USAREUR
maintains interoperability across multiple operational domains—an interoperability that was developed
through years of investment in combined operations in
Army paratroopers assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team conduct an allied training exercise 25 May 2014 alongside
soldiers from Latvia’s Land Forces Infantry Brigade at Adazu Training Area, Latvia. Approximately 600 paratroopers from the 173rd ABCT
are in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland as part of Operation Atlantic Resolve to demonstrate commitment to NATO obligations and
sustain interoperability with allied forces.
(Photo by Sgt. Alonzo Werner, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team PAO)
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