Checkered Flag, one of the Department of Defense’s largest air-to-air exercises, is a large-scale aerial exercise which fosters readiness and interoperability, designed to integrate fourth and fifth-generation airframes to enhance mobility, deployment, and employment capabilities of aviators and maintainers. The two-week long exercise focuses on integration of the F-22 Raptor and F-35A...
Soldiers from U.S. Army Pacific (USARPAC) and the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) People’s Liberation Army (PLA) participate in a Disaster Management Exchange (DME) on the Island of Hawaii from Nov. 13-26. The 2019 DME is a U.S. hosted exchange focused on an international HA/DR scenario and will occur in three parts: an Expert Academic Discussion, a Table Top Exchange, and a Practical...
The DME is a bilateral exchange between the Chinese, People's Liberation Army (PLA), interagency humanitarian aid and disaster relief organizations and U.S. Army Pacific. The PLA hosted a DME in the Guangzhou Military Region in January 2015, the current DME is being held at Yakima Training Center on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA. The DME focuses on disaster response missions and improves U.S....
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Exercise Citadel Shield-Solid Curtain 2023 (CS-SC23) is an annual, two-part force protection (FP) exercise conducted by Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command (USFFC) and Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC) on all CONUS Navy installations. The exercise is scheduled Feb. 6 – Feb 17. Citadel Shield is the field training exercise (FTX) portion led by CNIC. Solid Curtain is the command...
Exercise Citadel Shield - Solid Curtain 2019 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...
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...
Clear Horizon is a US Navy led annual, bilateral exercise with the ROK navy designed to enhance cooperation and improve capabilities in mine countermeasure operations. During the exercise, U.S. and ROK navy ships and expeditionary units will practice clearing routes for shipping and conduct training surveys for clearing operational areas. Mine clearing helicopters will rehearse mine...
