Milcom editor blog note: As my friend Leif Dehio points put, "This exercise is always a good oppoortunity to test your high end decoders, since participating stations often send plain text tfc., employing most of the modern MIL-STD and STANAG waveforms used on the air nowadays." If you hear any Combined Endeavor exercise comms how about passing them along to the Milcom blog. You can use the email address in the masthead. Also let me know if you wish to remain anonymous. Now if I could just get a peak at that exercise HF comm plan!
In cooperation with the German and Croatian Ministries of Defense, U.S. European Command kicked off Combined Endeavor 2008, the 14th annual communications and information systems interoperability exercise May 1-14 at its main operating base at Lager Aulenbach in Baumholder, Germany, and at its forward operating site at Lora Naval Base in Split, Croatia.
Participating nations use Combined Endeavor to plan, prepare and practice using a full range of communications equipment, policies and procedures prior to deploying for NATO missions and emerging, real world crisis situations such as the evacuation of Lebanon and response to natural disasters. CE 08 is the premier in the spirit of Partnership for Peace exercise for Headquarters, U.S. European Command.
Combined Endeavor is focused on using command, communications and control (C4) systems compliant with widely-accepted NATO and commercial network standards already in used in the field, which are crucial to seamless multi-service and multinational interoperability.
More than 1,000 personnel from nearly 40 countries and two multi-national organizations spanning four continents and two unified commands will participate in the exercise at the two locations. Approximately 150 personnel will be deployed to a forward operating site in Croatia and more than 1,000 military and civilian personnel will be at the main operating base in Germany.
You can get more information on this big comm exercise at http://www.combinedendeavor.net/
