Last week, I visited Joint Base Langley-Eustis to attend the JECC’s Operation Yorktown, a joint training exercise that they intend to hold annually.
The exercise replicated conditions a JECC team would experience when deployed in support of or to set up a joint task force. Using lessons learned during the deployment to Haiti earlier this year, the JECC warfighters faced a humanitarian assistance scenario set after a volcano eruption devestates the country of Cameroon.
Air Force Col. Paul Eberhart, JECC Joint Deployable Team (JDT) chief, belives the exercise was extremely valuable for the entire JECC.
All seven succinct joint enabling capabilities – four functional areas of operations, plans, logistics and knowledge management/information superiority that comprise the JDT, the Joint Communications Support Element, the Joint Public Affairs Support Element and the Intelligence – Quick Reaction Team are represented here, learning how to act as a JTF for a combatant command.
Read more about Operation Yorktown here.
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