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  • Air, land and sea forces combine for Exercise Joint Warrior

    A tri-Service and multinational military exercise, with a total of 8,000 personnel taking part, begins this week at locations around the UK.

    Exercise Joint Warrior is conducted in the spring and autumn of each year, and the first Joint Warrior of 2012 (JW 121) is taking place between 16 and 26 April. The exercise provides co-ordinated training for all three UK Armed Services, along with visiting forces from allied nations such as the US, Denmark, Norway, France, Canada, Germany and the Netherlands.

    As part of the exercise, aircrew from RAF Leeming are joining with their French counterparts to provide 'enemy forces' for what is Europe's largest tactically-focused military exercise.



    As well as Royal Navy warships, minehunters, survey ships, patrol boats, a submarine and Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship Mounts Bay, members of 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines will also be in attendance to practise their amphibious skills. This is a work-up of their core function - their ability to project military power from the sea to land.



    Army representation includes troops from 16 Air Assault Brigade who have today focused on a theatre entry operation into a notional country. The Airborne Task Force (ABTF) used a combination of parachute, air assault and tactical air landings from a C-130 Hercules to seize and secure the airfield at West Freugh.

    Once it had landed, the task force, based around the 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland Battle Group, continued to defend the airfield and subsequently conducted several more air assault operations to defeat a notional enemy force. The exercise involved more than 1,600 troops and was supported by Apache, Chinook and Royal Navy Sea King helicopters from the Joint Helicopter Force.



    read more: http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/De...intWarrior.htm
    RGJ

    ...Once a Rifleman - Always a Rifleman... Celer et Audax

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