GIs in Europe Prepare for Afghanistan

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GIs in Europe Prepare for Afghanistan
November 16, 2009
Army News Service|by Sgt. Marla R. Keown

BABADAG TRAINING AREA, Romania - About 1,500 U.S., Romanian and Bulgarian Soldiers enhanced their combat skills with the Deployable Instrumentation Systems Europe (DISE) at the Babadag Training Area in eastern Romania and the Novo Selo Training Area in Bulgaria from the beginning of August to the end of October as part of Joint Task Force-East's (JTF-East) 2009 exercise.

DISE is a high-tech monitoring and training system that brings realism and combat similarity to Soldiers and units wherever they may be to enhance their warfighting skills.

The Joint Multinational Training Command (JMTC) is the Army's largest training command outside the continental United States based in Grafenwoehr, Germany, that identifies training opportunities and prepares war fighters for real-world requirements. They deployed the modular high-tech training system with 12 support personnel to Romania and Bulgaria for the 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment (SCR), stationed in Vilseck, Germany, and the Romanian and Bulgarian Land Forces during JTF-East.

Saab Training Systems, based in Sweden, introduced the expeditionary ground instrumentation system to JMTC in 2001 with the fielding of the Deployable Instrumentation Training System (DITS). Saab overseas the program and works together with JMTC to offer training scenarios that the DITS system monitors and provides feedback for live-fire and force-on-force for dismounted troops, armored and wheeled vehicles, and civilians on the battlefield. It also provides simulated artillery, minefields, improvised explosive devices (IED), and can create the effects of operating in a nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) environment. The DITS can also provide audio cues to Soldiers during training to simulate effects of small arms fire, artillery as well as enhancing casualty treatment in combat.

This DITS was expanded with the addition of the Combined Arms Tactical Engagement Simulation System (C-TESS) from Inter-Costal Electronics. The C-TESS provides aviation, artillery, and vehicle computer graphic instrumentation and allows JMTC to integrate aviation and artillery assets into ground unit training or to operate independent training events.


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