Immediately’s strategic realities underscore the mission and sense of urgency for Provider Strike Group (CSG) 4 to coach, mentor, and assess service strike teams, amphibious prepared teams, and unbiased deployers to discourage, defend, and if vital, defeat the enemy in fight.
CSG-4’s imaginative and prescient is growing the Navy’s warfighting benefit to win the high-end combat by way of the deliberate growth of warfighting functionality on a basis of tactical experience guided by root trigger evaluation. This focus immediately helps the Secretary of the Navy’s strategic steering, the Chief of Naval Operations’ Navigation Plan, and Distributed Maritime Operations Idea, and it’s realized alongside 5 strains of effort – Built-in Warfare; Dwell, Digital, Constructive (LVC) coaching; Fleet Response Coaching Plan (FRTP) alignment; Evaluation; and Necessities Growth.
The command’s core mission to coach, mentor, and assess built-in maritime forces for worldwide task is knowledgeable by the present and projected strategic safety surroundings. Latest armed conflicts remind us of the crucial for naval forces to coach to any menace surroundings they could encounter, and underscores the complexity dealing with commanders main groups from the East Coast who could function within the U.S. Sixth, Fifth, or Seventh Fleet areas of operation. Every pure, safety, and protection surroundings across the globe has its personal distinctive challenges in all warfare domains. Present conflicts additionally emphasize the significance of relationships with allies and companions and the belief constructed by way of mixed coaching workouts.
Maritime diplomacy and integration are a precedence in CSG-4’s pre-deployment coaching. In 2020, Allied Imaginative and prescient NATO coaching occasions have been integrated into Composite Coaching Unit Workouts (COMPTUEX). The assist of U.S. and NATO operational commanders has been crucial in growing this system to incorporate direct engagement with Naval Placing and Help Forces NATO (STRIKFORNATO) in Lisbon, Portugal. These efforts immediately contribute to interoperability within the Euro-Atlantic area, and maybe extra importantly, develop the private {and professional} relationships between items and Sailors that ship the power to function cohesively on the velocity of belief.
Reflective of the quickly evolving nature of built-in warfare, CSG-4 works throughout the Navy and Joint staff to extend Joint All Area Command and Management (JADC2) capability for the high-end combat. The CSG-4 headquarters together with subordinate instructions at Tactical Coaching Group Atlantic (TTGL), Expeditionary Warfare Coaching Group Atlantic (EWTGL), Coaching Help Vessel Squadron (TSVRON) 4, and CSG-4 Navy Reserve items are quickly growing and informing an LVC coaching surroundings that may speed up tactical and operational warfighting functionality. CSG-4 employs Dwell, Digital, and Constructive (LVC) coaching in every COMPTUEX, in addition to integrating LVC into coaching alternatives all through the deployment coaching cycle. LVC is a transformative functionality that will increase readiness by way of high-fidelity, speedy studying from the person watch stander to the service strike group commander.
CSG-4 companions with Kind Commanders, CSG-15, and the Navy’s 5 Warfighting Growth Facilities (WDC) to extend tactical proficiency earlier within the coaching cycle, whereas additionally assembly Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO) targets for high-end combat capabilities. Every of the WDCs have been based on the hard-earned legacy of TOPGUN and the Naval Aviation Warfighting Growth Heart. And additional, every is transferring quickly to ship built-in warfighting functionality because the mannequin expanded from aviation to undersea, info, floor, mine, and expeditionary warfare communities prior to now decade. Continued funding and growth of every of the WDCs knowledgeable by Fleet Commander coaching workouts is required to tempo strategic opponents.
Equally, CSG-4 works intently with II Marine Expeditionary Pressure’s Expeditionary Operations Coaching Group (EOTG) to align and synchronize Blue-Inexperienced staff coaching which helps naval integration and DMO targets. This effort goes past Composite Unit Coaching Workouts (COMPTUEX) and is built-in into occasions equivalent to Giant Scale Workouts 21 and 23. CSG-4 additionally takes each alternative to include in-service teammates from Naval Particular Warfare and Navy Expeditionary Fight Command, in addition to the joint power.
CSG-4 operates as a supporting command in service to the Fleet – Sailors, Marines, and their households. To borrow from U.S. Particular Operations Command – people are extra essential than {hardware}. It is a warfighting crucial. Historical past teaches that the best tactical – and strategic – benefits are the corporals, petty officers, first lieutenants, and lieutenants junior grade able to main in battle and who comprehend the importance of their function in our naval power.
CSG-4 will proceed to push the coaching envelope. The groups at CSG-4’s headquarters, TTGL, EWTGL, TSVRON 4, and our CSG-4 Navy Reserve items are actively engaged in coaching, mentoring, and assessing service strike teams, amphibious prepared teams, and unbiased deployers to discourage, defend, and if vital, defeat the enemy in fight. CSG-4 will proceed to work as if at this time is the final day of peace.
