Pacific Newsbreak for February 27, 2017
Joint and multinational training takes place around the Pacific, from aerial exercise Cope North in Guam, to amphibious exercise Iron Fist in...
Cope North 2017 (CN17) is an annual PACAF tri-lateral Field Training Exercise (FTX) with participants from the U.S. Air Force (USAF), U.S. Navy (USN), U.S. Marine Corps (USMC), Japanese Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF), and Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) conducted primarily at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. Participating air forces will conduct a tri-lateral FTX to improve combat readiness, develop synergistic humanitarian assistance and/or disaster relief operations, and increase interoperability between the U.S., RAAF, and JASDF, concentrating on coordination of air Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs). The exercise features a full spectrum of fighter, bomber, airlift, tanker, rescue and command and control aircraft.
