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Afghanistan and around the world. NATO is a viable
deterrent to aggression, and many non-NATO members
look to NATO for reassurance. USAREUR’s location,
along with the great capabilities of the Joint Readiness
Training Center, provides a ready avenue to achieve this
shared goal. Every country with which USAREUR currently has units operating for Operation Atlantic Resolve
has participated in at least one USAREUR training
event at a Joint Multinational Training Command training area, or a combined USAREUR exercise that has
been hosted in another country.

This command fully believes that partnering,
training, and working with NATO and non-NATO
members will lead to the common goal of providing
a safe and stable environment and will give
USAREUR the ability to respond to crises when
needed. Atlantic Resolve illustrates why USAREUR
believes relationships matter and will continue to
matter in an uncertain and challenging future. Never
forget that endeavors involving organizations are
always about people and with people—it is the
relationships that truly matter.

Lt. Gen. Donald M. Campbell Jr., U.S. Army, is the commanding general of United States Army Europe, headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany. He grew up on Army posts throughout the United States and is a distinguished military graduate of Kansas State University, where he was commissioned as an armor officer in May 1978. Campbell
has held various positions at all levels of staff and command in the Army from armor platoon leader to corps commander. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the U.S. Army War College,
and he holds a master’s degree in administration from Central Michigan University.
Maj. Michael T. Whitney, U.S. Army, is a member of the Commanding General’s Initiatives Group for United States
Army Europe. He holds a B.A. from Santa Clara University and an M.B.A. from the University of West Florida.
His assignments include tours in Europe and the Middle East, and deployments supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom
and Operation Enduring Freedom.

Notes
1. The Combined Training Conference is a semi-annual
conference designed to synchronize and source USAREUR
multinational exercises and training events to promote greater interoperability with NATO allies and troop-contributing
nations. The conference is run by USAREUR and is cohosted
by NATO’s Joint Forces Command Brunssum. The conference,
held 17 to 19 June 2014, had more than 150 attendees from
32 nations.
2. Persistent presence land forces assurance exercises
are the first in a series of expanded U.S. land force training
activities in Poland and the Baltic region taking place for the
next few months and beyond. The exercises, conducted by
USAREUR soldiers and host-nation forces, are a demonstration of the United States commitment to NATO and to our
collective defense responsibilities through increased ground,
air, and naval force presence. The intent of the supplementary exercises is to reassure NATO allies that the U.S. commitment to meeting our nation’s Article 5 obligations is unwavering. Accordingly, USAREUR has deployed company-sized
contingents of U.S. paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne
Brigade to Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia—roughly
600 Soldiers in all—to conduct the expanded land force
training. This action comes at the request of the host-nation
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governments.
3. The Conference of European Armies took place in Wiesbaden, Germany, 30 September to 2 October 2013. The conference’s goal was to enhance this common interest and support
a foundation for the strong relationships shared in the region as
senior land forces leaders discussed solutions to our many shared
security concerns and reinforced their mutual commitment to
each other. The conference included senior land forces leaders
such as Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, and
senior officers from 35 other countries. The theme of the conference was Opportunities to Address Common Security Challenges.
4. According to Field Manual 3-22, Army Support to Security
Cooperation (2013), regionally aligned forces are those forces that
provide a combatant commander with up to joint t ask force-capable headquarters with scalable, tailorable capabilities to enable
the combatant commander to shape the environment. They
are those Army units assigned to combatant commands, those
Army units allocated to a combatant command, and those Army
capabilities distributed and prepared by the Army for combatant
command regional missions. (Regional missions are driven by
combatant command requirements and include theater security
cooperation, other shaping efforts, and collective response to
threats, if necessary.)
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