Recently thousands of military personnel took part in Exercise Wessex Storm on Salisbury Plain Training Area. It's a large-scale exercise and takes a significant amount of planning, not just from the Armed Forces taking part but from DIO and Industry Partners Landmarc Support Services.
From an initial brief, the team are responsible for locating the right training area to meet the needs of the exercising troops, allocating a specific location on the training area for each unit to exercise, and managing any conflicts should anything change. The team also enables the logistics, food and accommodation for the troops and other supporting teams once they arrive. Once the training is underway, the team ensure that the individual elements of the exercise run smoothly, efficiently, and safely by offering on-site guidance and support.
It’s not only troop safety that is a priority during an exercise of this size: there could be implications for the public too, as the exercise takes place across the entire plain for two weeks and involves a lot of troops, fast moving vehicles and pyrotechnics.