Major Joint Training Exercise to Kick Off Next Week

By Keith Costa / January 13, 2004 at 5:00 AM
U.S. Joint Forces Command next week will kick off the first in a series of events designed to find out if the Defense Department's "joint national training capability" will by ready for initial use this October. Under the JNTC concept, the services will regularly engage in joint training in a variety of locations. JNTC events can feature live exercises networked with training simulators and augmented by computer-generated friendly and opposition forces. JNTC officials hope to achieve initial operational capability by...

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