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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

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LANDCOM Commander visits HQ NRDC-ESP

The Commander of the NATO Land Command

HQ NRDC ESP

The Commander of the NATO Land Command

HQ NRDC ESP

The Commander of the NATO Land Command (LANDCOM) located in IZMIR (Turkey), United Stated Lieutenant General John Nicholson, visited the facilities of the Spanish Rapid Deployable Corps Headquarters (HQ NRDC-ESP) located in Betera on the 26th of November to foster the relationship between both headquarters.

 

NRDC ESP Commander, Spanish Lieutenant General Rafael Comas Abad, provided him with an update about the operational capabilities this HQ has endorsed since the certification as the first Joint Task Force Headquarters in NATO.
Lieutenant General Nicholson was also updated about the implications of exercise Trident Juncture 2015. Exercise Trident Juncture (TRJE) will be a multilevel, joint, multinational exercise that will be run in two phases.
The first one will be a computer assisted command post exercise from the 03rd to the 16th of October 2015 to train and certify the NATO Response Force (NRF 16) whose Land Component Command (LCC) will be led by HQ NRDC-ESP.
The second phase will take place from the 21st to the 06th of November 2015. This exercise will involve a significant number of land, maritime and air forces that will be deployed mainly in Spain. The purpose of this training is overarched by the new NATO Connected Forces Initiative (CFI) and the aim is to keep the standards of interoperability reached by NATO forces in Afghanistan. 
The land units will deploy in San Gregorio range (Zaragoza), Chinchilla (Albacete), el Retín (Cádiz) and Santa Margarida (Portugal). It was decided that TRJE15 will be carried out in Zaragoza range due to its capabilities, extension, extraordinary facilities and the area where most of the units will be deployed.
 
                                                                                              Betera 26 November 2014