DVIDS – News – Georgia NG Advisors constructing relationships in Colombia

The Georgia Army Nationwide Guard’s Fort Benning-based Staff 6120, Bravo Firm, 1st Battalion, 54th Safety Forces Brigade, 648th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade deployed Oct. 30 to Nov. 18, 2022, to Tolemaida Navy Base, Colombia to assist and take part in Train Southern Vanguard 23.

Southern Vanguard 23 is an annual train performed by U.S. Army South throughout the U.S. Southern Command space of accountability which trains items on the operational and tactical ranges to extend coordination between the U.S. and Western Hemisphere forces, on this occasion, Colombia.

A Safety Pressure Help Brigade (SFAB) is a specialised United States Army unit shaped to conduct safety power help (SFA) missions: to conduct advise, assist, liaise, assess operations at echelon to allow operations with allied and companion nations. SFABs are meant to scale back the burden of such operations on U.S. Special Forces organizations after intensive SFA missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, permitting them to deal with coaching and working with allied and companion nationwide elite items.

“Staff 6120’s focus for Southern Vanguard is to extend Colombian Army’s functionality and capability to conduct mission command on the Battalion operational and tactical stage,” stated Maj. Chris Dumais, commander and staff chief, Staff 6120. “Our Advisor’s developed a Mixed Employees coaching plan specializing in the NATO Seven-Step operational planning course of and direct assist throughout a Mixed Process-Pressure train.”

On account of the Advisor’s safety power help effort to construct the institutional data for the Colombian Army to assist future multinational, regional and mixed/joint interoperability on the tactical stage between Colombian allies and companion nations. Total, in accordance with the Built-in Nation Technique of the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, the aim of Staff 6120 is that U.S. forces are the companion of alternative in future coaching and potential operations for the Colombian Army.

SFAB Staff 6120 is a 12-Soldier staff comprised of consultants in maneuver, fires, intelligence, explosive hazards, and assist who’re embedded with the Colombian Army to extend their capacity to work with U.S., NATO, and companion nations.

The first focus of the SFAB’s through the train is to help the Colombian’s capacity to carry out command and management duties of their power conducting operations all through the train.

“Our mixed stage of expertise working in ahead environments and our stage of coaching present the Colombians with subject material consultants which enhance their capacity to focus their forces,” stated Sgt. 1st Class Hector Umaña, operations noncommissioned officer, Staff 6120.”

Moreover, the SFAB are validating the Colombian soldier’s communication plan on the tactical-level and using new command and management gadgets such because the CivTak (Civilian Tactical Consciousness Package) to enhance situational consciousness of the platoon and squad leaders. The flexibility to know and anticipate the operational image assists leaders in understanding the operational image and might train disciplined initiative within the absence of orders from increased.

“The flexibility to make the most of the CivTak and validate their communication procedures guarantee commanders in any respect ranges have the right info,” stated Sgt. 1st Class Thomas Davant, fires assist advisor, Staff 6120. “It ensures they’ve a standard working image.”

The partnership between the U.S. and Colombian Army dates again nearly 70 years in the past to the Korean Battle when the Colombian Battalion, (an infantry battalion of the Colombian Army that served beneath United Nations Command through the Korean Battle from 1951 to 1954) the primary Colombian army unit to serve in Asia, was connected to the U.S. seventh Infantry Division and twenty fifth Infantry Divisions beneath eighth Army. There we fought and sacrificed to defend the liberty of our ally. The Colombian Battalion suffered 163 killed in motion, 448 wounded, 60 lacking, and 30 captured over the course of the battle.

One of the vital missions of Staff 6120 is making certain partnerships on the tactical stage and bettering relationships between the U.S. army and Colombian forces. Staff 6120 has inserted members on the team-level of the Colombian Army to perform this.

“Colombian Troopers are undoubtedly keen on our operational experiences during the last twenty years, and we’re studying how they function in decentralized environments on the tactical stage,” stated Employees Sgt. Jose Hernandez, explosive hazards advisor, Staff 6120. “They’re a few of the {most professional} and devoted companion forces I’ve had the pleasure to work with.”