SHAPE? ACO?

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• SHAPE? ACO?
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Michael Adubato, SHAPE Language Testing
Centre SHAPE, Belgium
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SHAPE-Allied Command Operations

• Everything you wanted to know about SHAPE but
• Were afraid to ask
• Didnt know who to ask
• Forgot that you wanted to know something about
  SHAPE!

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• What is SHAPE?

NATO UNCLASSIFIED
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NATO Organization
NATO Headquarters
Committees
Committees
Other Committees
Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Chairman Military Committee Admiral Di Paola
International Staff
International Military Staff
Strategic Commands
Allied Command Operations
Allied Command Transformation
SACTGeneral Stephane Abrial
SACEURAdmiral Jim Stavridis
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NATOs Strategic Commands

• Provides military advice to NATOs political and
  military leadership
• Develops military policy within the framework of
  NATO
• Plans for future NATO operations including Force
  Generation
• Directs and Monitors ongoing NATO operations

• Lead agency for transformation
• Conducts analysis
• Explores concepts and promotes doctrine
• Manages Transformation programme
• Training and education

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SHAPE Mons, Belgium

• Develops military policy within the framework of
  NATO
• Provides military advice to the NATOs political
  and military leadership at Brussels
• Plans for future NATO operations including force
  generation
• Directs and monitors ongoing NATO operations

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Campus B-7010 SHAPE

• ALLIED COMMAND OPERATIONS (ACO) SUPREME
  HEADQUARTERS ALLIED POWERS EUROPE (SHAPE)
• National Military Representatives (NMR)/
  National Support Elements (NSE)
• EU Cell at SHAPE (EUCS) (organizational element
  of the EU Military Staff as a permanent Liaison
  to SHAPE)
• EU Staff Group (EUSG) (supporting DSACEUR in his
  role as Commander EU Operation ALTHEA in BIH)
• NATO Airborne Early Warning Control Force
  Command (NAEWC FC)
• Allied Command Transformation, Staff Element
  Europe (ACT SEE)
• NATO Communication and Information Systems
  Services Agency (NCSA)
• NATO Special Operations Forces Coordination
  Centre (NSCC)
• SHAPE International School (SIS) with currently
  11 national departments

NATO UNCLASSIFIED
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SHAPE facts and figures

• HQ SHAPE
• April 2, 1951 SHAPE was activated at the Hotel
  Astoria, Paris, FRA. In Summer 1951 the HQ moved
  to its new locations in Rocquencourt, west of
  Paris. In March 1967 SHAPE moved to Mons, BEL.
• ACO comprises of around 1.000 posts.

• Campus B-7010 SHAPE
• The SHAPE area is about 200 ha and comprises of
  staff buildings, support facilities, school
  buildings, shopping areas, sports, moral and
  welfare facilities as well as 2 housing areas
  with 600 residential buildings of different size.
• More than 4.100 military and civilian personnel
  from currently 48 Nations working at SHAPE.
  People from
• 28 NATO Member Countries
• 17 Partnership for Peace Members
• 2 Mediterranean Dialog Country (Egypt, Morocco)
• 1 Contact Country (Australia)
• The whole SHAPE Community (personnel
  dependents) consists currently of about 8,200
  people.

NATO UNCLASSIFIED
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SHAPE village

• Rendezvous

NATO UNCLASSIFIED
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SHAPE village

• The SHAPE Club
• Silver spoon self-service restaurant

NATO UNCLASSIFIED
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SHAPE village

• Pizza Bowl
• Sport equipment centre

NATO UNCLASSIFIED
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SHAPE village

• Sport areas

NATO UNCLASSIFIED
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SHAPE village

• Entertaiment Centre
• Cinema

NATO UNCLASSIFIED
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SHAPE village

• Auto Skills Centre

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SHAPE village

• Community Activity Centre
• Library and Trips Tours

NATO UNCLASSIFIED
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SHAPE village

• Youth Activities Centre

NATO UNCLASSIFIED
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SHAPE village

• Kindergarten / pre-school playgroup

NATO UNCLASSIFIED
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SHAPE village

• Arts Crafts

NATO UNCLASSIFIED
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ACO Focus

• Plan execute combined, joint effects
  based operations.
• Address future multidimensional threats.
• Evolve and improve through transformation.
• Develop relationships with partners and contact
  countries.

Admiral J. Stavridis SACEUR
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ACO HQ Structure

• SPECIAL STAFF
• SACEUR Representative to MC (at NATO HQ)
• International Affairs Advisor
• Legal Advisor
• Financial Controller
• Medical Advisor
• ACO Organization, Development Audit (ODA)
• Public Affairs Office
• Historical Office
• Director Special Operations Office
• Chief Strategic Communications
• ACO Provost Marshal

• Natl Military Representatives

ACT
NATO UNCLASSIFIED
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SHAPE Command Group
SHAPE Chief of Staff (COS)
Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR)
Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR)
Admiral James STAVRIDIS US Navy 02 July
2009 dual-hatted as COMMANDER US European
Command
GENERAL Sir Alexander Richard David
SHIRREFF British Army 04 March 2011 dual-hatted
as OPERATIONAL COMMANDER EU Operation ALTHEA
GENERAL Manfred LANGE German Air Force 23
September 2010
NATO UNCLASSIFIED
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ACO Command Structure
Tactical or Component level
NATO UNCLASSIFIED
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NATO Command Structure (NCS) Reform
SHAPE
CI Agency
ACT
950
Mons/Various
Mons
Norfolk/Various
AJHQ
AJHQ
850
850
Brunssum
Naples
MARITIME COMD HQ
350
CIS GROUP
300
Northwood
1300
AIR COMD HQ
500
Ramstein
280
185
185
AGS
NAEW
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NATO UNCLASSIFIED
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C2 of NATO Operations
JFC Brunssum
JFC Lisbon
JFC Naples
OPERATION OCEAN SHIELD
SUPPORT TO AFRICAN UNION
AIR POLICING/ AIR SURVEILLANCE
KOSOVO FORCE
UNIFIED PROTECTOR
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ASSISTANCE FORCE
AIR POLICING
NATO UNCLASSIFIED
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_at_ the SLTC

• Who passed their test?
• JUNE 2 newcomers passed, 7 failed (77 failed)
• JUNE 1 re-test passed, 3 failed (75 failed)
• JULY 1 newcomer passed, 1 failed (50 failed)
• JULY 4 re-test passed, 0 failed (0 failed!!)

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_at_ the SLTC

• Who passed their test?
• AUG 4 newcomers passed, 15 failed (78 failed)
• AUG 1 re-test passed, 1 failed (50 failed)
• SEPT 5 newcomers passed, 19 failed (79 failed)
• SEPT 0 re-test passed, 1 failed (100 failed!!)

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Tests vs. Certificates

• June conducted 42 tests received 7
  certificates from newcomers
• July conducted 13 tests received 24
  certificates
• August conducted 51 tests received 38
  certificates
• September conducted 66 tests received 9
  certificates

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French LR tests

• There are not many PE positions that require a
  mandatory French SLP
• but there are some, therefore those individuals
  must be tested!
• So..

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French LR tests
Centre international detudes pedagogiques
Created in 1945and a national state organisation
since 1987, CIEP is known in France and
internationally for its skills in assessment,
training and evaluation, and for its ideas in the
field of international cooperation in education.
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ENGLISH Listening Reading tests
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English Listening Reading tests

• Will develop a new battery of LR tests for the
  SHAPE Language Testing Centre
• Listening tests at Levels 2, 3 4
• Reading tests at Levels 2, 3 4

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QUESTIONS??