Hohenfels soldiers training troops at Fort Bragg

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Hohenfels soldiers training troops at Fort Bragg
By Seth Robson, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Sunday, March 15, 2009

GRAFENWÖHR, Germany — Six hundred trainers and support staff from Hohenfels’ Joint Multinational Readiness Center are at Fort Bragg, N.C., this month helping prepare soldiers from the 2nd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division for a potential overseas combat mission.

The exercise is designed to test the cost effectiveness of providing pre-deployment training for troops at their home bases instead of sending them to the Army’s combat training centers.

Typically, Iraq- or Afghanistan-bound units spend a month preparing for their missions at maneuver training centers such as Fort Irwin, California’s National Training Center; Fort Polk, Louisiana’s Joint Readiness Training Center; or, in the case of Europe-based units, Hohenfels, Germany’s JMRC.

JMRC has spent the last few years developing an "exportable" training system that uses radio signals to track units on the simulated battlefield, then relays the information to computers so that it can be displayed on screens for after-action reviews that trainers use to show units what they should be doing in combat.

The system has been used during training in Romania and Bulgaria but this is the first time it has been taken back to the United States.


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