24 • Transformation Through Training • Issue No: 10 • September 2017 and their main HQs in home bases and support of their Joint Logistic Support Groups (JLSG) in planning and conducting Reception, Staging, Onward Movement and Integration (RSOMI), and theatre level logistics in backing JTF HQ (L) operations. Although JFTC treats the CIBS16 and ULSD16 events as Phase III in exercise planning process for respective HQs, this was only one step on the way to attain the aforementioned NATO certification (Phase 1DfromfinalTRJR17Exerciseperspective). Since both events aimed at the same, they had similar objectives: - DemonstratingHQscapabilitytoplan for and conduct the Entry Phase of a NATO SmallerJointOperationLandheavy(SJO-L); - Serving as a platform for evaluation of HQ’s deployability, Stratcom, Joint Logistic Support, Info- Knowledge Management and RSOMI; - Facilitating Force/ EXCON initial integration and producing background information in preparation of TRJR CPX; - Enhancing multinational interoperability in planning and conducting joint-combined operations with an extensive use of NATO LC2IS and FAS; - Contributing to NATO visible presence in Poland. Even though the commanders of RRC-FR and 1GNC were both Officers Scheduling the Exercise (OSE) and Officers Conducting the Exercise (OCE), there was a lot left for JFTC to support their training events. Apart from providing the HQs with the main venue for the exercise and the required hardware, our personnel provided them with real life support, particularly with accommodation, individual protocol assistance to each Flag Officer and visitor, transportation and catering. Around 400 participants took part in each of the training and they were supported by approximately 60 dedicated employees of JFTC. Both exercises were based on the Skolkan 2.0 scenario -a fictitious area located in Scandinavia in northern Europe. It concentrated on several independent countries of the former Skolkan Empire: Arnland, Bothnia, Framland, Lindsey, Otso and Torrike that border NATO countries. Struggling with severe internal issues that may have had an impact on the whole region, Arnland requested NATO forces to provide security assistance. Responding to this official request and with diplomatic support of the United Nations (UN), NATO, as part of a global solution, has accepted to intervene in Arnland. The Arnland Security and Assistance Force (ASAF) mission’s task was to help Arnland in resolving the above mentioned international issues and their root causes, and thus enable countering terrorism and organized crime and set the conditions for a secure and stable future in Northern Europe and the Skolkan Region particularly. ■