'Unified Endeavor' Tests 101st Airborne

[unhappycamper]

'Unified Endeavor' Tests 101st Airborne
Army News Service | October 16, 2007


FORT CAMPBELL, KY - Senior military officials from the U.S. and Afghanistan visited the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Unified Endeavor exercise at Fort Campbell Friday.

The two-week exercise was designed to replicate, through both computer simulation and role playing, the complex operating environment that the 101st will face as it's headquarters assumes the lead U.S. military role in Afghanistan in early 2008.

Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak, Afghan national defense minister; Gen. George Casey, U.S. Army chief of staff; Gen. Charles Campbell, Forces Command commander; and others spent the last day of the exercise touring the joint operations center and attending the final review.

Gen. Wardak came to Fort Campbell to further the close relationship between the Afghan and U.S. forces by observing the exercise and strengthening personal ties with the division commander, Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Schloesser.

Maj. Gen. Schloesser said he intends to continue a balanced approach toward the operations in Afghanistan by supporting the government in their security, economic development, and governance efforts to create a secure and stable environment for its people.


~snip~

In is (sic) farewell speech to 2nd Brigade Combat Team troops deploying Friday, Gen. Casey said of their mission in Operation Iraqi Freedom, "What is at stake is nothing less than the ideals on which this nation is based."


Rest of article at: http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,152905,00.html