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 505th CCW supports Navy Large Scale Exercise 21Published Aug. 17, 2021
                        
                        By Deb Henley
                        
                        
                        505th Command and Control Wing Public Affairs
                **HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. (AFNS) --**
                Airmen from the 505th Combat Training Squadron and the 505th Communications Squadron, **Hurlburt Field**, supported Navy Large Scale Exercise 21 – the biggest **U.S. Navy** exercise in a generation, according to Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday, July 28-Aug. 16.
A biannual event, NLSE provides a training and experimentation environment, which leverages the integrated fighting power of multiple naval forces to share sensors, weapons and platforms across all domains in a globally contested environment. NLSE 20 was canceled due to the **COVID-19** pandemic, so those training objectives were rolled into NLSE 21, resulting in a massive exercise, including 25,000 U.S. Sailors and Marines across 17 time zones.
During NLSE 21, the 505th CTS is replicating the **U.S. European Command** Air Operations Center, while hosting 18 U.S. Sailors from **Carrier Strike Group 4**, and the Maritime Operations Center Exercise Support Team who are replicating the **U.S. Northern Command** AOC.
In order to meet the unique challenges of supporting multiple AOCs, the 505th CS configured and maintained two Theater Battle Management Core Systems, two Global Command and Control Systems, and collaborative systems (voice, chat, email, etc.) Once configured, these systems, coupled with network connections, support USEUCOM and USNORTHCOM AOC Replication Cells and their respective Exercise Control Group endeavors. The support provided by the 505th CS allows AOC RC controllers to push real time updates for air tasking orders and airspace control orders to theater representatives and ensures a valid common operating picture is in play. Combined, this joint team replicates the full spectrum of airpower to tens of thousands of U.S. Sailors and Marines, testing how the services will fight across vast distances as they prepare for near-peer conflict.
In supporting the exercise, the 505th CTS helped Sailors and Marines apply concepts such as Distributed Maritime Operations and Joint All-Domain Command and Control to ensure a ready and superior force in a high-end fight.
“As the mission of the 505th CTS is to plan and execute realistic scenario generation and replication of operational-level environments in the application of [Joint All-Domain Command and Control], our support to NLSE 21 affords our team the opportunity to help our joint partners shape their approach to the same end,” said Lt. Col. Aarron Cornine, 505th CTS commander.
“I couldn’t be more proud of the 505th CTS team,” Cornine added. “From our enlisted, officer, government service, government grade and contract support personnel, all members have been working toward delivering a successful exercise in order to provide operational warfighters with the tools to integrate among components and dominate in near-peer competition.”
The relationship between the 505th CTS and the MOC EST has grown exponentially in recent years. Originally coordinated as a reciprocal support agreement to provide exercise air tasking orders in exchange for Naval Aviation Liaison Element during Air Force **Blue Flag exercises**, the 505th CTS and MOC EST now provide mutual support across a full range of exercises, with the 505th CTS representing the air component during Navy events and the MOC EST representing the maritime component during Air Force events.
“Given the realities of the current global situation and the return of great power competition, the work of both the 505th CTS and 505th CS has never been more important in advancing our operational command and control capabilities across the joint force,” said Col. Aaron Gibney, 505th Combat Training Group commander, **Nellis Air Force Base**, Nevada.
NLSE 21 is both a live and virtual training exercise. While three dozen naval units participate live in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, more than 50 service members will join the exercise remotely, including personnel from all three **Marine Corps** Expeditionary Forces and Sailors from the Navy’s Second, Third, Sixth, Seventh and Tenth Fleets.
Throughout the 20-day exercise, members of the 505th CTS will replicate the air component 24 hours a day, seven days a week, providing a realistic operational training environment to joint partners. NLSE 21 is part of an ongoing series of exercises that demonstrates the Navy’s ability to employ precise, lethal and overwhelming force globally across three naval component commands, five numbered fleets and 17 time zones.LR 



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