Secretary of the Army Eric Fanning visits soldiers and leaders of the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division on July 30, 2016 at various locations in Malaysia. The Lancer Brigade has been deployed in support of Pacific Pathways, a series of exercises designed to increase unit readiness, build regional partner disaster relief capacity and challenge the Army team with a complex scenario with multiple teams operating in Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia. (U.S. Army video by Staff Sgt. Bryan Brown)
PULADA, MALAYSIA – Soldiers from 8th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment stood proudly with the Malaysian Royal Rangers for the opening of Exercise Keris Strike, an annual U.S.- Malaysian training exercise for Pacific Pathways, here, July 25.
Lancer Brigade Soldiers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. are half-way around the world marching side-by-side with counterparts from the Tentara Nasional Indonesia Angatan-Darat (TNI-AD) in order to learn techniques of Jungle survival that have degraded amongst U.S. soldiers over the past 12 years of desert and mountain warfare.
