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For supporting the training of 10,000 senior leaders and battle staffs of U.S. European Command, U.S. Transportation Command, U.S. Army Europe, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, U.S. Air Forces Europe, Partnership for Peace Program, Tactical Support Center and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency through mission rehearsal exercises, “red teaming” and lessons learned analysis, USAFE’s Warrior Preparation Center captured the Air Force’s most coveted Modeling and Simulation Award.
Brig. Gen. David Fadok, Warfighter Systems Integration and Deployment – SAF/XCD, presented the Air Force Award to WPC Commander Col. “Spanky” Dennis during an award ceremony in Orlando, Fla., sponsored by the DOD’s annual Defense Modeling Simulation Conference.
Faced with the challenge of losing the U.S. Army’s partnering activities at the Einsiedlerhof facility, the 80 plus active duty, NSPS and contractor personnel worked with leaders from over 20 separate nations’ military headquarters’ personnel better trained to provide consequence management and perform counterterrorism operations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
The WPC was recognized as the “birthplace” of the concept to provide Remotely Operated Video Enhanced Receiver training at home to prep International Security Assistance Force forward air controllers and U.S. Joint Tactical air controllers for war.
During 2007, the WPC hosted the first ever NATO SOF Training and Education Program for training prior to ISAF deployments; a key NATO transformation initiative where 36 SOF students were trained. The WPC also maintained robust Joint Live, Virtual, Constructive support to the 3rd AF and 603d AOC at very little cost to USAFE/USAF. Most recently, the WPC designed an exercise vignette for 603d AOC/152d AOG training to execute five ATO cycles over five days to emphasize differences between doctrinal and “downrange” procedures.
During the year, the WPC hosted more than 60 events in support of exercises, conferences and USAFE’s staff training requirements.
The WPC’s M&S capability produced unparalleled constructive synthetic combat environments in support of operational level staff training while providing realistic, responsive and relevant JLVC training environments. This action was essential to linking the tactical and operational art of war and directly contributed to increased
warfighter readiness in support of U.S. and NATO training transformation initiatives for the Combatant Commander.
(Courtesy of USAFE’s Warrior Preparation Center)
