Photo Of The Day: The 7th Army Training Command wrapped up Exercise Combined Resolve 26-07 at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, on May 10th, a month-long rotation that brought together more than 3,600 participants from seven nations to work through the kind of problems that don’t always have clean answers. Combined arms interoperability. Multi-domain operations. The friction of working alongside allies who train differently, speak differently, and sometimes shoot differently – with “enemy” forces shooting back at you!
The 3rd Infantry Division led the rotation as the higher command, simultaneously deployed to Poland as the task force headquarters for Army Regional Aligned Forces, which means this wasn’t purely a training exercise in the abstract sense. The command relationships were real.
JMRC’s terrain is deliberately unforgiving. Hohenfels doesn’t hand you easy ground, and the scenario-driven training structure is built to stress-test exactly the kind of coordination that falls apart first under pressure: communication between echelons, shared situational awareness, and the mutual trust that NATO interoperability runs on.
Seven nations. Thirty-six hundred soldiers. One month. Combined Resolve doesn’t ask whether the alliance works. It finds out.
Source: U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Scyrrus Corregidor.
