Military Review English Edition November-December 2014 | Page 11

ASSURANCE IN EUROPE USAREUR hope to form the kinds of partnerships that prove resilient through uncertainty, as demonstrated by Operation Atlantic Resolve. USAREUR conducts partnership training at every opportunity and at all levels, most notably at the Joint Maneuver Training and Readiness Centers in Grafenwoehr and Hohenfels, Germany. This creates a foundation that allows USAREUR to practice working together and builds interoperability throughout its multinational team. This is also the key to developing a skill set that focuses on allowing the USAREUR team to seamlessly integrate wherever called upon, or to walk off an aircraft and immediately begin partnership training. USAREUR prevents and protects as a member of a larger team. As the Army Service component command for USEUCOM, USAREUR is separate from NATO, though it fills a vitally important role in the transformation of partnered NATO forces. USAREUR’s goal is to be a manifestation of a continued U.S. commitment to stability on the European continent, while offering a number of unique capabilities to support NATO objectives. Leveraging the USAREUR staff, assigned forces, and longstanding partnerships is the way USAREUR maintains interoperability across multiple operational domains—an interoperability that was developed through years of investment in combined operations in Army paratroopers assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team conduct an allied training exercise 25 May 2014 alongside soldiers from Latvia’s Land Forces Infantry Brigade at Adazu Training Area, Latvia. Approximately 600 paratroopers from the 173rd ABCT are in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland as part of Operation Atlantic Resolve to demonstrate commitment to NATO obligations and sustain interoperability with allied forces. (Photo by Sgt. Alonzo Werner, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team PAO) MILITARY REVIEW  November-December 2014 9