On 2 – 3 November 2011, the Commander of the Multinational Corps Northeast (MNC NE) Lieutenant General Rainer Korff hosted a conference for brigade commanders whose troops will be the Training Audience during the exercise Crystal Eagle 2012.
The aim of the conference held half a year prior to the exercise was first of all to introduce the concept of the exercise to the Training Audience, get to know each other and strengthen the cooperation between the MNC NE and the Training Audience. „It has been a very short but very fruitful conference. It was very well prepared by the Corps with a lot of new thinking and a lot of discussions of some of the lessons learned that we have from the international operations around the world. That gives me an impression that it is going to be an interesting and very qualified exercise and it will be of good training benefit for all the participating units,” said Lieutenant Colonel Kristian Gram, the head of the Danish Delegation from the 2nd Danish Brigade, one of the exercise participants. Beyond purely exercise related matters; he also stressed the importance of the conference in terms of building up mutual relations: “It has been a very good social experience to meet the other commanders and be so well received here in the Corps,” he admitted.
Guests from Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Slovenia and the United States representing various units involved in the Crystal Eagle 2012 exercise as well as a number of the Corps members took part in this conference hosted by the MNC NE Commander.
