Flintlock is the premier special operations forces exercise for U.S. Africa Command. The exercise strengthens security institutions, promotes multilateral sharing of information, and develops interoperability among the partner nations of the Trans-Sahara Counter-Terrorism Partnership.
Cope South is a Pacific Air Forces-sponsored bilateral tactical airlift exercise supporting the attainment of service and combined training objectives, which include activities designed to test operational employment concepts, evaluate participating nations’ capabilities and shortfalls to improve combined interoperability and inform follow-on operations, actions and activities.
Nearly 400 medical personnel from Landstuhl Regional Medical Center and 30th Medical Brigade will participate in Operation Courageous Defense, a collective training exercise designed to showcase integrated medical operations in the European theater, March 3-6. As part of their preparations for DEFENDER-Europe 20, a theater-wide exercise with the largest deployment of U.S.-based forces to...
From 1941 through 1946, nearly 1,000 young men were trained as pilots, and, after successfully completing the training, they received their commissions and silver pilot wings. The Tuskegee Airmen formed the 332nd Fighter Group which originally consisted of four fighter squadrons: the 99th, the 100th, the 301st and the 302nd. They flew over 15,000 missions/sorties in the European Theater of...
Based on the Strategies for the Arctic Circle Region of the President of the United States, Department of Defense (DoD), U.S. Coast Guard, and Canada. ARCTIC EAGLE 2020 (AE20) is an unclassified Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental, and Multinational (JIIM) exercise series with the intent to support partner nation and national guard participant’s training requirements. With U.S. national...
Marines and Sailors from II Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) and Expeditionary Strike Group 2 conduct Maritime Prepositioning Force Exercise (MPFEX) 20, which focuses on sustaining proficiency in planning and executing maritime prepositioning operations. II MEF Forward will command and control the exercise from to Naval Support Activity Naples, Italy. MPFEX 20 provides an opportunity for II...
Southern Strike 2020 is a large scale, joint and international combat exercise, which features counter insurgency, close air support, enroute casualty care, non-combatant evacuations and special operations. The event will be held at the Combat Readiness Training Center in Gulfport, Miss. from 30 January to 13 February 2020.
Exercise Citadel Shield - Solid Curtain 2020 is a two-part, linked anti-terrorism force protection exercise conducted by Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command and Commander, Navy Installations Command on all Navy installations in the continental U.S. This annual exercise is designed to enhance the readiness of Navy Security Forces and ensure seamless interoperability among the commands, other...
