Saber Strike 15 Builds Air Force Interoperability

The following is a release from Staff Sgt. Armando A. Schwier-Morales, U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa Public Affairs:

RIGA, Latvia (AFNS) — Joint terminal attack controllers from various units around the Air Force trained alongside more than 14 nations and 6,000 service members participating in Saber Strike 15.

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“[Saber Strike] is great experience, you get to learn different tactics and techniques and process (other nations) bring and how they employ different verbiage they use that we can possibly put in our bag of tricks,” said Tech. Sgt. Todd Jensen, a 116 Air Support Operations Squadron JTAC. “That helps us be more effective controllers and get effects on the ground for the commander sooner.”

Airmen from the U.S. worked with British, Latvian and various other JTAC service members during Saber Strike. The exercise not only gave the pilots a chance to hear other voices, but also gave other nations the chance to hone and improve skills.

“We get to see how (other nations) do their controlling and we can try to adopt some of their methods to speed things up,” said Lance Cpl. Paul Coleman, a British army JTAC.

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Source:: Tactical Life