Combat Comm works Healthy Star exercise

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  • By Tech. Sgt. Dustin Johnson
  • 1st Combat Communications Squadron
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany --  More than 100 1st Combat Communications Squadron Airmen recently participated in a Healthy Star exercise, demonstrating the squadron's ability to stage deployments to six separate sites while supporting multiple locations during Joint Task Force Nomad Fire.

According to Master Sgt. Gerry Tripp, Camp Odie superintendent, the exercise provided 1st Combat Comm an opportunity to concentrate on three areas critical to the success of any mission or exercise: security, safety and readiness.

"Our team was able to couple these efforts while at the same time remaining committed to lessons learned from prior operational readiness exercises," he said.

Airmen were able to practice providing secure voice, DSN, secure video teleconferencing, NIPR, SIPR, land mobile radio and air-to-ground radio assets, which enable the deployed commander with command and control over the area of operation.

"The ability of 1st Combat Comm to exercise supporting six sites at the same time the squadron is supporting JTF Nomad Fire operations is a testament to our operational posture and the dedication of our Airmen who are trained to support any (European Command) tasking," said Lt. Col. Joe Sublousky, 1st CBCS commander. "The perfect mix of our training and teamwork has been the recipe to our deployment success."

Healthy Star is a quarterly, two-week field training exercise with an overarching objective to assist 3rd Air Force in developing contingency plans for future operations.