{"id":763,"date":"2023-11-01T00:35:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T00:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/?p=763"},"modified":"2023-11-01T00:35:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T00:35:48","slug":"green-berets-partner-with-spanish-special-operations-forces-for-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"Green Berets Partner with Spanish Special Operations Forces for Training"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ALICANTE, Spain \u2014 Green Berets with the U.S. Army\u2019s 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) concluded a nearly two-month joint combined exchange training \u2014 known as JCET \u2014 with members of the Spanish Army\u2019s Grupo Especial de Operaciones near Alicante.<\/p>\n

The U.S. and Spanish special operations forces practiced a wide variety of skills during this exercise, including training in long-range marksmanship, crew-served weapons familiarization, mission planning, close-quarter battle, breaching operations, military operations in urban terrain, rappelling and other critical combat and unconventional warfare skills.<\/p>\n

U.S. Special Forces conduct JCETs with foreign militaries and partner agencies in their home countries. \u201cJCETs facilitate shared understanding and awareness of capabilities and readiness,\u201d said Lt. Col. Kevin Bowman, U.S. Special Operations Command Europe\u2019s special operations liaison officer to Spain. \u201cMore importantly, they allow for both country\u2019s units to build bonds and relationships, which are invaluable, particularly in times of crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Conducting JCETs with traditional U.S. allies like Spain is important to U.S. Special Operations Forces. \u201cSpain is a very capable NATO ally with diverse, yet shared interests around the globe. It is critical that both countries collaborate wherever possible, given the high probability that we\u2019ll be asked to work together in a future scenario,\u201d Bowman said.<\/p>\n

This JCET built upon past training and exercises for the Green Berets of 10th SFG (A). \u201cThis two-month JCET was extremely successful \u2013 not only did we increase our own tactical capabilities, but we also improved our interoperability and integration with our Spanish Army SOF peers,\u201d said a U.S. Army special forces detachment commander directly involved in the training. \u201cMy Spanish counterpart and I integrated our teams to the maximum extent possible\u2026 this afforded both detachments the opportunity to develop our mission planning skills, mobility capabilities, and combined special reconnaissance and direct action tactics, techniques, and procedures.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Both the Green Berets and the GOE gained valuable experience and increased their interoperability according to the detachment commander. JCETs continue to provide unique training opportunities for both U.S. forces and their multinational counterparts.<\/p>\n

By CPT Jonathan Leigh<\/em><\/p>\n

Photos by SSG Jacob Dunlap <\/em><\/p>\n

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ALICANTE, Spain \u2014 Green Berets with the U.S. Army\u2019s 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) concluded a nearly two-month joint combined exchange training \u2014 known as JCET \u2014 with members of the Spanish Army\u2019s Grupo Especial de Operaciones near Alicante. The U.S. and Spanish special operations forces practiced a wide variety of skills during this exercise, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-army"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}