The Joint Readiness Training Center is pleased to present the third episode to air on ‘The Crucible - The JRTC Experience.’ Hosted by the Commander of Ops Group (COG), COL Matthew Hardman. Today’s guest is the commander of 1st Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, COL Theodore Kleisner. 1/82 AB has a long and distinguished history starting with the fierce fighting in the Italian campaigns of World War II and has the Hollywood call-sign of “Devil.” The majority of the leadership for the BCT will be undertaking their second iteration through the combat training center training glide-path as well as a real-world deployment as the U.S.’ immediate response force. In this episode they discuss some of the things that the Devil Brigade would have liked to have known prior to the start of this Leader Training Program for their rotation.

Additionally, since both COL Kleisner and COL Hardman were two of the senior leaders involved in Operation Allies Refuge, better known as the non-combatant evacuation operation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan in August of 2021, they discuss how the CTCs prepare BCTs to succeed when conducting operations across the competition phase to the conflict phase of modern warfare. (COL Hardman was then the commander for 3rd IBCT, 10th Mountain Division prior to becoming the JRTC COG.)

S02 If I Would Have Only Known

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Releasedatum: 22-3-2023 15:45:22