The headquarters and headquarters company of the U.S. Army Network and Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM) conducted an event called Mercury Rising, the first of the new fiscal year. As part of the program, military personnel underwent a combination of physical training and professional development courses. The objective of the exercise was to enhance overall combat readiness of personnel, improve unit cohesion, and foster individual accountability among military personnel. Such comprehensive training programs that combine physical and professional components are traditionally used by army command to maintain high levels of personnel training at the beginning of a new reporting period. Command representatives emphasized that regular conduct of such exercises contributes to the development of sustainable professional skills and strengthens unit morale among military personnel, which ultimately has a positive impact on the accomplishment of assigned tasks.