Posted on Mar 10, 2015
How can a unit conduct its Annual Training as part of an OCONUS exercise?
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I know there are guard and reserve units that have conducted annual training OCONUS. How would one get the ball rolling to be involved in an exercise like Key Resolve, Foal Eagle, or any other large yearly exercise? For our state the cost would be an issue, but from what I understand if it’s part of a large yearly exercise the regular army picks up much of the cost. If it helps in answering the question, we’re a newly stood up Target Acquisition Battery.
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Your unit also has to have a capability that is needed -- and some proven skill in doing it.
Don't know the Guard's policy, but the Army Force Generation (ARFORGEN) model has most major collective events like this coming during a unit's 4th or 5th year. So that could be stand-up year + 5 or stand-up year could be year 1.
Recommend getting everything locked tight as a unit before looking for an exercise OCONUS. Units get "un-invited" in subsequent years if they don't do well -- and it can roll over to their entire type of unit if the issue is bad enough.
Don't know the Guard's policy, but the Army Force Generation (ARFORGEN) model has most major collective events like this coming during a unit's 4th or 5th year. So that could be stand-up year + 5 or stand-up year could be year 1.
Recommend getting everything locked tight as a unit before looking for an exercise OCONUS. Units get "un-invited" in subsequent years if they don't do well -- and it can roll over to their entire type of unit if the issue is bad enough.
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Things like this usually occur when your state guys attend the TROS conference. There are dudes at tables pitching OCONUS missions/support. It takes the state G3 to get them rolling. It doesn't cost the state anything, everything is paid for. In my old BDE guys went to Germany to support OPFOR some went to Korea, and others went to different locations in the US to support.
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GySgt William Hardy
My unit which as since been retired, the 30th Separate Armor Brigade, use to participate in Reforger back in the early 90s. On paper, our unit was assigned responsibilities in the Fulda Gap area so we had some dealing with the regular army during those days. When we did our deployments, we played the role to the hilt. We were airlifted out of Ft. Campbell and flown to Belgium and then flown into Germany. We would pick up our equipment which had been sent over months earlier and then convoy from mock battlefield to other locations around Central and Northern Germany. It was always good to train along side active duty troops. It showed them we were in fact trained up for the job and we got along just fine with them.
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GySgt William Hardy
Also, in more recent years the units in my state reorganized into many different engineering units. In lieu of AT, they will more than likely deploy to a third-world country in the Caribbean area on "humanitarian mission" and repair roads, construct buildings, etc.
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