What does a commander do when the unit has a mission in Afghanistan, and they’re partnering with nation’s greater than 6,000 miles away?

The 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), also referred to as 10th SFG(A), of Fort Carson, Colo., met Special Forces units from four European nations at Grafenwoehr Training Area, April 16-28, to arrange for an upcoming mission in Afghanistan.

“It’s very unique that a U.S. based 10th Special Forces Group battalion can come to Grafenwoehr Training Area from stateside to fulfill with their European partners for his or her culminating keep fit exercise just before deploying to Afghanistan for operations,” said Col. Adam A. Loveless, the manager of teaching on the Joint Multinational Training Command, or JMTC, at Grafenwoehr, Germany. “The JMTC is the U.S. Army’s only overseas training command; both U.S. and multinational Soldiers are better trained and higher accustomed to the mission, tactics and strategies before reporting downrange in Afghanistan because they work, bunk, eat and train together here first. That’s why our location here in central Europe is important.”

The JMTC regularly hosts mission rehearsal exercises and unit training with U.S. service members, multinational and NATO partners from Europe, Asia and Africa.

During the educational, 10th SFG(A) and their multinational teams breached and cleared buildings, found targets and destroyed caches, while also training on common tactics equivalent to casualty evacuation procedures and treating medical wounds.

“It’s realistic training. It’s effective and unique to link up with our European partner nations,” said a U.S Special Forces team member. “We become more culturally and tactically aware, and we’re training with a couple of partner nation.”

He said it was reasonable to satisfy in Europe. He doubted the warriors from all four nations can have participated within the training had it been conducted anywhere else.