{"id":55632,"date":"2022-03-24T20:57:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T20:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2022\/03\/24\/first-army-warfighter-exercise-in-pacific-will-take-on-large-scale-operations\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:09:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:09:35","slug":"first-army-warfighter-exercise-in-pacific-will-take-on-large-scale-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2022\/03\/24\/first-army-warfighter-exercise-in-pacific-will-take-on-large-scale-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"First Army Warfighter Exercise in Pacific will take on large-scale operations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kansas \u2013 The Army\u2019s next Warfighter Exercise will feature a scenario in the Pacific<\/a> for the first time, according to Col. Bryan Babich, the service\u2019s Combined Arms Center\u2019s Mission Command Training Program commander.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Warfighter Exercise is the Army\u2019s capstone training event for the Corps and Division echelons and is conducted for each every two years. It\u2019s an immersive 10-day exercise typically focused on forward passage of formational lines, long-range precision fires and a wet gap crossing, usually culminating in a transition to a defensive posture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These exercises commonly set up a command post in the field under canvas using tactical communications. The post then relocates at least once during the exercise, allowing troops to practice the complicated and delicate balance of transferring control of systems and processes to a smaller command post, Babich said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These exercises have previously focused on scenarios related to the Middle East, Korea and the Baltic countries in Europe, Babich told Army Secretary Christine Wormuth during a briefing here on May 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re seeing it play out in real time today\u201d in Europe, Babich noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allies and partners have participated in previous warfighter efforts; the U.K. and France are some of the most recent participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Late last year, Wormuth said she envisions five core tasks for the Army in the Pacific<\/a>, should a conflict break out there. The Army would be a \u201clinchpin\u201d for the joint force to establish and secure staging areas and joint operating bases for air and naval capability and forces and would need to be prepared to provide integrated air and missile defense and sustainment to the joint force, including secure communications networks and munitions stocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The service would provide command-and-control across operational echelons <\/b>and also ground-based, long-range precision fires. The Army could also counterattack using its maneuver forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\t