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US Army Reserve's Resolute Castle 2022: Scheduling Europe's engineering projects

By Maj. Khoran Lee March 29, 2022

The U.S. Army Reserve's 416th Theater Engineer Command and U.S. Army Europe and Africa Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff - Engineer hosted the Resolute Castle 2022 final planning conference at the Parkhurst Army Reserve Facility in Darien, Illinois, from Feb. 23-25.

Multi-units, components, and allied partner nations participating in RC22 came together to solidify operations before the exercise is scheduled to start in Spring, 2022.

The exercise will have units performing construction projects throughout countries of Greece, Poland, and Romania.

U.S. Army Lt. Col. Katie R Fidler, ODSENG Chief of Troop Construction Operations, spearheaded the final planning conference.

ODSENG provides Army engineer expertise to U.S. Army Europe and Africa commanders, staff, units and sister services, and synchronizes engineer efforts across the theater to fulfill requirements of the campaign plan.

"We handle all the engineering construction throughout Europe and Africa. Specifically, the stuff that is not on an installation," Fidler said. "If it's off on a contingency base, ODCSNG controls, oversees and manages construction.

"The objective for the planning conference is, we're looking to essentially confirm that all of our sustainment and logistics requirements are locked in, that we have all of our movement requirements or solidified timelines, requests for the movement support, especially because it's in OCONUS [Outside the Continental United States]."

During the conference multi-component and British Army Engineer unit planners synchronized rotations for RC22 construction projects that will begin in May, 2022.

"Because it's an engineer-specific exercise, we're doing actual construction work, we have a lot of units that are rotating into the construction projects, and out, so one of the big things is making sure that we're synchronized," Fidler added.

There are two parts of the construction projects units will perform during RC22. First is the actual construction operation that will take place in Tinku, Romania, at the National Joint Training Center, and in Smardan Training Area.

Because engineer construction designs take time, plans are being designed for projects in 2023, said Fidler. Forward Engineer Support Team-Advance will provide technical engineer plans and designs for construction and will travel to Poland and Greece to survey projects for the follow-on year.