40th Infantry Division participates in Defender Pacific 20. Defender Pacific is a joint exercise that demonstrates the Army's strategic readiness by deploying combat credible forces across the Indo-Pacific Theater of operations.
In today’s world with the war on terror many new types of tactics emerge in the military. One type of training, though it may feel like an old hat to most soldiers, can never be practiced enough. This training is the cordon and search.
As part of the Field Training Exercise, being held during Operation Rapid Trident, the Ukrainian Army conducted a vehicle checkpoint operation in which soldiers practiced searching for illegal narcotics.