Consider the following hypothetical scenario: As tensions continue to rise in East Asia and with many of her fellow Marines already forward deployed, Captain Smith looks forward to a quiet Saturday as Staff Duty Officer catching up on email before her own unit’s deployment. As she scrolls through her inbox, she notices “WARNING ORDER� in a subject line and double clicks. “FM II MEF... OPERATION RAPID FURY... EASTERN POLAND... JTAC/JFO SUPPORT.� Captain Smith reads the order a second time while calling her Commander. After hanging up, she starts running through her mental checklist of things to do, “September is right around the corner! How do we shift gears from an exercise in Korea to a quick response, real world show of force in Eastern Europe with NATO partners? The WARNORD mentioned ground units from Poland and Germany, aircraft from the U.S., U.K., France and Italy. How in the world do I get my Marines ready for that?� Joint Staff J6 has been working to improve distributed simulator interoperability in the joint fires domain for the last five years as part of its Bold Quest series of coalition capability demonstration and assessment events. Despite decades of experience in distributed simulation, warfighters are still unable to rapidly and routinely connect simulators between different Services and nations. What price we are paying for our inability to connect these systems? What could we do better if warfighters were able to train together with their mission partners prior to the chaos of combat? To better understand the scope of this problem, we conducted a survey of 60 current simulation subject matter experts. This paper provides the survey results and details recommendations to allow LVC systems to operate together in a joint and coalition context.