392d CTS completes its first USEUCOM-focused SPACE FLAG exercise
SCHRIEVER SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. – The 392d Combat Training Squadron under Delta 1, Space Training and Readiness Command, recently completed SPACE FLAG 23-1, which provided combat training to both U.S. and Coalition forces.
SPACE FLAG 23-1, which ran from Dec. 5-16, was the third Coalition SPACE FLAG and the 16th iteration of the SPACE FLAG exercise series. 23-1 was the first in the SPACE FLAG program to exercise combat tactics in a U.S. European Command scenario.
“Last February I asked my team to explore how we could amplify and expand Guardian training with USEUCOM problem sets,” said U.S. Space Force Lt. Col. Albert Harris, 392d CTS commander. “They responded brilliantly with an impressive combat training event that exercised theater plans and improved space warfighter readiness.”
During three two-day exercise vulnerability windows, where each included mission planning on the first day and then simulated combat operations on the second day, the training audience practiced their actual procedures to increase readiness to win in a European conflict.
During mission planning, the 392d CTS presented theater-specific problems along with strategic and operational guidance. The training audience then developed mission plans including possible courses of action based on realistic threats. After each planning period, the training audience briefed their plan to senior leaders who then provided guidance and direction. The training audience used senior leader feedback to revise and finalize their plan prior to execution the following day.
“Nowhere else can U.S. and Coalition forces train together with the specificity needed to improve space combat tactics,” said U.S. Space Force Col. Jason Schramm, Delta 1 commander and a senior leader during the exercise. “Winning in space underpins Coalition lethality in other warfighting domains, and I certainly saw that in the SPACE FLAG 23-1 scenario.
“I couldn’t have been more pleased to not only see Coalition forces participating in this SPACE FLAG, but to see them take on leadership roles on the planning teams where they taught and led our US forces in these incredibly complex space warfighting scenarios,” Schramm added. “We will fight in space as a Coalition, and these opportunities are invaluable to building the team that will fight together should the need arise.”
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