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June/July 2013

Preserving capacity, General Tom Lawson, Chief of the Defence Staff, Keys to Canadian SAR

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T Training JoInteX TRAINING THE WAY WE FIGHT o ver a period from late May to mid June, soldiers, sailors and air crews participated in the final stage of JOINTEX 2013. Many of the Canadian Forces personnel were participating in their annual force generation exercises, Trident Fury for the Royal Canadian Navy, Maple Resolve for the Canadian Army and Maple Flag for the Royal Canadian Air Force. For the first time, however, all three were integrated into a nation-wide, a five-stage exercise that began in 2010 to train a Canadian-led Combined Joint Inter-Agency Task Force Headquarters (CJIATF HQ) in the planning and conduct of coalition full-spectrum operations, all with the aim of achieving "a joint, integrated, agile and ready force." JOINTEX "provides a predictable, repeatable, and adaptable means to learn and improve, allowing us the critical opportunities to play it out in training before living it out in actual operations," said LGen Stu Beare, commander of Canadian Joint Operations Command, in a statement. The exercise is intended to support initiatives that enhance integration across the CF, including its capacity to lead an international operation at the CJIATF level with the 1st Canadian Division Headquarters as the command centre; develop joint doctrine; and advance the collective training agenda in operational simulations. It's also designed to identify and develop CF capability packages available for deployed operations; a joint common operating picture; joint communications and information systems; joint fire and battlespace management capabilities; and a joint operational support concept. Stage 5, which concludes in June, was called "the most complex network-enabled collective training event the Canadian Forces have ever conducted," and involved a computer-assisted field training exercise and command post exercise with live, virtual and constructive players and equipment operating in a shared training environment. 24 JUNE/JULY 2013 24 JUNE/JULY 2013 www.vanguardcanada.com www.vanguardcanada.com

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