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Accession Number
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ADA560269
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Title
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Bridging the Engineer Gap from Tactical to Strategic.
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Publication Date
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Apr 2012
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Media Count
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5p
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Personal Author
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D. G. Montgomery I. F. Hopkins J. E. Fleischner
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Abstract
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Many times, engineers are thrown into an exercise regardless of their training. The result is the placement of tactical engineers at an operational level for which they don t have the appropriate skill set. Engineers who can bridge this gap are the Heroes of the Exercise, providing engineer planning and reachback to consistently stay ahead of the commander s decision cycle. In 2009, the first joint force engineer command (JFEC) was activated in Afghanistan, centralizing engineer efforts and assets across the theater to facilitate and coordinate engineer operations. In 2011, U.S. forces saw another first for the JFEC concept; the integration of this team of engineers from all services in support of U.S. European Command (USEUCOM). With help from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the U.S. Army Reserve 416th Theater Engineer Command, USEUCOM tested the JFEC ability to coordinate engineer assets outside the war zone during a training exercise. A deployable command post (DCP) (Figure 1) was established that required modifying the joint manning document to incorporate field force engineering and service component engineers to become a JFEC.
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Keywords
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Army
Decision making
Deployment
Integration
Military engineering
Military engineers
Military exercises
Military planning
Military reserves
Military training
Missions
Reprints
Skills
Strategy
Teams(Personnel)
Theater level operations
Training
Warfare
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Source Agency
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Non Paid ADAS
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NTIS Subject Category
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70D - Personnel Management, Labor Relations & Manpower Studies
88D - Personnel
92A - Job Training & Career Development
50B - Civil Engineering
74 - Military Sciences
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Corporate Author
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Army Engineer School, Fort Leonard Wood, MO.
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Document Type
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Journal article
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Title Note
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Journal article.
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NTIS Issue Number
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1221
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Contract Number
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N/A
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