Story by Joseph Siemandel | Joint Force Headquarters - Washington National Guard | 11.02.2021
Building partnerships with our foreign allies is critical strategy to ensure the success of the U.S. military.
Story by Staff Sgt. Samuel Northrup | 1-2 SBCT, 7th Infantry Division | 10.03.2017
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. – During the month of September, two battalions from the 1-2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team trained with the Indian and Japanese armed forces to enhance interoperability and to increase the brigade’s readiness. The two separate training missions consisted of Rising Thunder with the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) and Yudh Abhyas with the Indian......
Story by Staff Sgt. Samuel Northrup | 1-2 SBCT, 7th Infantry Division | 09.27.2016
CHAUBATTIA MILITARY STATION, India – Soldiers from the United States and India completed a two-week training exercise on Sept. 27, 2016, at Chaubattia Military Station, India. The closing ceremonies Tuesday marked the 12th year of the bilateral training exercise known as Yudh Abhyas. Yudh Abhyas, which means ‘training for war’ in Hindi, focused on the interoperability between the U.S.......
Story by Staff Sgt. Samuel Northrup | 1-2 SBCT, 7th Infantry Division | 09.15.2016
CHAUBATTIA MILITARY STATION, India – Soldiers with the U.S. Army‚ 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 1-2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team, and the Indian army’s 12 Madras, stood together Sept. 15, 2016, in formation on a parade field nestled high in the mountains approximately 200 miles northeast of New Dehli, India, as part of the opening ceremony for the annual bilateral training......
Story by Staff Sgt. Samuel Northrup | 1-2 SBCT, 7th Infantry Division | 07.26.2016
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. – Members of 1-2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team met with Indian army officials July 18-20, at Ranikhet, India, to plan for the upcoming Yudh Abhyas exercise scheduled for September of this year. Yudh Abhyas is a regularly-scheduled bilateral exercise hosted by the Indian and U.S. Armies which allows for an exchange of knowledge between the two militaries using......
Courtesy Story | California National Guard Primary | 10.02.2015
Twenty Soldiers from the 100th Troop Command, led by Col. Rick Rabe, participated in the U.S. Army Pacific bilateral “Yudh Abhyas” exercise at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM), Washington, Sept. 9-23. The California Army National Guard Soldiers were partnered with Indian Army officers to replicate a United Nations peacekeeping mission headquarters in a command post exercise that simulated......
Story by Sgt. Daniel Schroeder | 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 09.23.2015
Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division and 6th Battalion of the Kumaon Regiment concluded the 11th iteration of exercise Yudh Abhyas at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, September 9-23. Yudh Abhyas is an annual, U.S. Army Pacific-sponsored Theater Security Cooperation Program bilateral exercise designed to strengthen the U.S. and Indian......
Story by Staff Sgt. Patricia McMurphy | 28th Public Affairs Detachment | 09.22.2015
It looked like any other U.S. Army Conex used on every military installation around the globe. But this was no ordinary storage container, this one was part of a mobile forensic exploitation lab (FXL), provided by the Forensic Exploitation Directorate of the Defense Forensic Science Center used by the military to exploit forensic evidence and identify criminals and anonymous threat actors......
