HOHENFELS, Germany -- After over a year's worth of training, cadets from the United Kingdom's Royal Military Academy Sandhurst reached the academy's "pinnacle" combat exercise here at the U.S. Army's Joint Multinational Readiness Center March 20, 2015.
"The exercise here at JMRC is really the highlight of what the cadets do," said the Commandant of the Academy, Maj. Gen. Stuart R. Skeates. "It offers a huge amount in terms of complexity, environment, and just great training."
The cadets overwhelmingly said that the final battle exercise at JMRC, known as Dynamic Victory, was the most lasting, interesting and rewarding experience of the whole Sandhurst training. This really completed the training experience, said one cadet after the battle.
Over 200 cadets are participating in the exercise, which is designed to assess and confirm the suitability of each officer cadets' capacity to survive and fight in field operations prior to commissioning into the British Army.
With a vast array of terrain types, and urban areas, the Hohenfels Training Area offers the cadets a unique experience just not available at the academy.
"The great thing about training at JMRC is that the area provides very challenging environments that the cadets haven't encountered before," said Skeates. "It enables us to confirm all the training they received over the course of the last year, and place them in some situations that they are less familiar with."
The JMRC falls under the leadership of the 7th Army Joint Multinational Training Command headquartered in Grafenwoehr, Germany, about an hour north of the JMRC in Hohenfels.
The cadets have now trained at the JMTC's Grafenwoehr and Hohenfels Training Areas a total of five iterations. Skeates said one of the main reasons why his cadets train here is due to their U.S. hosts.
"The support from our colleagues at JMRC is just outstanding, and it reflects directly in the training--which was really well-resourced and well-supported," said Skeates.
"The greatest thing the cadets are going to take away from their time here is the experience of working in a real challenging world class training environment," Skeates said. "It's just real great training."
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