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American Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise in Poland

10.07.2020

From July 14 to Aug. 23 as part of Dynamic Force Employment, an American armored unit will deploy to Europe. Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise is a US Department of Defense-directed, strategic deployment designed to test the Army’s ability to rapidly alert and deploy around the globe. The exercise will test the US strategic readiness to support the European allies.

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An American exercise conducted on Drawsko Pomorskie Training Area is yet another opportunity to enhance cooperation between US and Polish troops on a tactical level. Approximately 500 soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, will participate. Polish contribution will come from 17 Mechanized Brigade located in Miedzyrzecz and from 12 Mechanized Brigade from Szczecin. 

The 1st Cavalry Division (Forward) will serve as mission command for the exercise while 7th Army Training Command from Grafenwoehr, Germany, will provide exercise control.

COVID-19 precautionary measures will be taken to ensure the health and protection of participating armed forces and the local population.

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Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise was initially planned as an exercise linked to the main DEFENDER-Europe 20 exercise, which was designed as a deployment exercise to build strategic readiness in support of the U.S. National Defense Strategy and NATO deterrence objectives. In response to COVID-19, DEFENDER-Europe 20 was modified in size and scope and from 5 to 19 June around 6 000 Polish and American soldiers cooperated during Allied Spirit exercise also at Drawsko Pomorskie Training Area in Poland.  

The exercise has three main objectives: 1) a Dynamic Force Employment of a U.S. Army unit to Poland, 2) the drawing and fielding of equipment from Army Prepositioned Stock and 3) the execution of a battalion-level combined live-fire exercise. The equipment, consisting of approximately 55 Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles, was originally moved out of Army Pre-positioned Stock sites in Germany and Belgium in February and moved to Bergen-Hohne Training Area, Germany, as part of the original DEFENDER-Europe 20 exercise. The equipment will move to Drawsko Pomorskie Training Area, Poland, for the modified exercise.

Pictures and videos will be regularly posted on: www.eur.army.mil/DefenderEurope
Media interested in coverage opportunities should email: USArmyEurope.MediaDesk@mail.mil.
 

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