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• DOD Guidance on the Use of Cloth Face Coverings ABCANZ nations have served and exercised together to pursue
• Immediate Guidance and PLANORD for ARNG common objectives and improve multinational interoperability.
Preparedness and Response to COVID-19 Outbreak This catalog expands on the previous version and uses four recent
• USAG Humphreys COVID-19 Response Playbook exercises to determine the areas that will improve interoperability
• 173rd Airborne Brigade COVID-19 Response (February– within the ABCANZ Armies’ Program. The target audience for
March 2020) this catalog is commanders and staffs from battalion to corps level
• USAG Italy Forza Handbook (COVID-19 Response) involved with ABCANZ training, exercises, rotational deploy-
• Protecting Yourself and Your Family From COVID-19 ment, or other training opportunities with partner nations within
Transmission. the ABCANZ Armies’ Program.

Best Practice Submissions 1st ID “How We Fight”—Distributed Mission Command in
Decisive Action Warfighter 19-04. Posted On: 21 Apr 2020.
75th Ranger Regiment Best Practice. Posted On: 02 Apr 2020. URL: https://call2.army.mil/toc.aspx?document=18022
URL: https://call2.army.mil/toc.aspx?document=18011 In April 2019, the 1st Infantry Division (1ID) executed War fighter
JLLIS URL: https://www.jllis.mil/index.cfm?disp=cdrview.cfm& Exercise (WFX) 19-04 alongside the 3rd Division (United King-
doit=view&cdrid=139029 dom) as members of the III Armored Corps. WFX 19-04 was
Conducting combat search and rescue (CSAR) operations requires the culminating event of an eight-month deliberate and intense
knowledge and tactical expertise down to the lowest level. This training plan that leveraged home-station training capabilities
is achieved through understanding and applying standard oper- and U.S. Army Europe’s exercise program. This capstone exercise,
ating procedures, combined with being properly equipped and and its preceding training events, allowed the division to identify
cross-trained, to include cross training with Air Force parares- strengths, recognize shortfalls, and provide a focus for post-WFX
cue personnel. The 75th Ranger Regiment “CSAR Best Practice” training. This publication codifies the division’s best practices and
highlights some operational considerations and how to maintain lessons learned. Combined with the division tactical standard
CSAR readiness. operating procedure, it forms the basis for integrating new staff
members and ensures continuity in the understanding of how the
Newest Documents and Publications division executes combat operations.
20-15 FY19 Mission Command Training in Large-Scale Combat News From the Front—Proximity is not a Prohibition:
Operations (LSCO)—Mission Command Training Program Engaging Lawful Military Targets in the Vicinity of No-Strike
(MCTP) Key Observations. Posted On: 15 Apr 2020. Zones. Posted On: 16 Apr 2020.
URL: https://call2.army.mil/toc.aspx?document=18018 URL: https://call2.army.mil/toc.aspx?document=18021
JLLIS URL: https://www.jllis.mil/index.cfm?disp=cdrview.cfm& JLLIS URL: https://www.jllis.mil/index.cfm?disp=cdrview.cfm&
doit=view&cdrid=140212 doit=view&cdrid=140125
The information in this bulletin comprises recent observations The presence of no-strike entities (NSEs) in a congested battlespace
from Warfighter exercises in a LSCO environment. The authors will not hinder operations in most situations. The proximity of
are a collaborative group of experienced leaders, NCOs, chief an NSE to a lawful military target does not prohibit engagement.
warrant officers, and officer observer-coach/trainers, working in Even if the target is on the no-strike list (NSL), the strike can be
conjunction with MCTP highly qualified expert/senior mentors. executed in compliance with the collateral damage estimation
This bulletin provides an overview of the top seven collective methodology and law of armed conflict without NSL removal, if
trends organized by echelon of command and warfighting func- executed in self-defense or the target is time-sensitive.
tion, with additional emphasis on the integration of U.S. Air Force
assets, special operations forces, and cyberspace electromagnetic News From the Front: The Army Interoperability
activities. NCO utilization observations are also included to help Measurement System. Posted On: 16 Apr 2020.
facilitate the integration of NCOs into command posts. URL: https://call2.army.mil/toc.aspx?document=18020
JLLIS URL: https://www.jllis.mil/index.cfm?disp=cdrview.cfm&
20-14 Mountain Warfare and Cold Weather Operations doit=view&cdrid=140112
Leader’s Book. Posted On: 16 Apr 2020. To assess interoperability progress and inform resource allocation
URL: https://call2.army.mil/toc.aspx?document=18019 decisions, the Army developed an Army Interoperability Measure-
JLLIS URL: https://www.jllis.mil/index.cfm?disp=cdrview.cfm& ment System (AIMS) that measures interoperability levels among
doit=view&cdrid=120948 the U.S. Army and its partners. The AIMS is scalable, focused,
Mountains present leaders and units with unique challenges that strategic-to-tactical, linked to interoperability plans, and it has bi-
compound existing difficult combat realities. This handbook lateral, cross component, and joint utility. With sound concepts,
addresses the principal gap of informing leaders and staff of linkages, processes, and AIMS in place, the Army can design and
the considerations necessary to plan, operate, fight, and win in implement training exercises that, foremost, train U.S. and multi-
mountainous terrain at the company level and above. Leaders will national forces, while providing armies an opportunity to observe
find this handbook valuable in prioritizing tasks for training and and measure if interoperability goals are achieved.
predeployment planning for any military operations in the moun-
tains. No previous mountain training or expertise is required to News From the Front—Multinational Patient Evacuation and
understand and practice most tactics, techniques, and procedures Coordination Cell. Posted On: 09 Apr 2020.
contained in this publication. Users who have experience operat- URL: https://call2.army.mil/toc.aspx?document=18015
ing in a mountainous environment can use this handbook to assist JLLIS URL: https://www.jllis.mil/index.cfm?disp=cdrview.cfm&
them in learning what veterans of mountain operations already doit=view&cdrid=139076
know: Vertical environments are among the most challenging in During Exercise SABER STRIKE 18, the 30th Medical Brigade
which to conduct and sustain combat operations. liaison officer was assigned to the land component command and
multinational patient evacuation and coordination cell to ensure
20-13 ABCANZ Standards, Reports, and Handbooks for synchronization among the medical brigade, corps, and multina-
Commanders and Staffs. Posted On: 30 Mar 2020. tional staffs. Conducting medical regulation in this dynamic envi-
URL: https://call2.army.mil/toc.aspx?document=18007 ronment facilitated collaboration with NATO counterparts that
JLLIS URL: https://www.jllis.mil/index.cfm?disp=cdrview.cfm& resulted in observations to benefit medical operations in a joint or
doit=view&cdrid=138980 multinational environment.
The American, British, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand For more information, go to https://call2.army.mil/web
(ABCANZ) Armies’ Program is not an alliance; however, the Annoucements/20200401_CALL_Update.aspx

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