CHILIKEMER TRAINING AREA, Kazakhstan (June 26, 2019) -- At the combined battalion headquarters for Exercise Steppe Eagle 19, a multinational staff of American, Kazakhstani, Tajikistani, Kyrgyzstani, and British soldiers sit side-by-side manning the intelligence, operations, logistics, and communication sections. Analog maps, updated tracking spreadsheets, and radios line the walls as hourly reports are received by each company command post. The progressive training is promising, as eight days prior, many of the exercise's participants learned key staff principles like the Army's six warfighting functions: movement and maneuver, intelligence, fires, sustainment, mission command, and protection. With Steppe Eagle 19 concluding June 27, the exercise's planners and training officers say they are confident in the participating nations' growing capabilities.

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