UK SF Exercise – Chameleon 23-1
By Pat Carty. I wish I had a globe which enabled me to look into the future. There again, I guess if I had paid more attention to the current weather charts, and used them to predict the future weather, […]
Exercises
Finland’s Utti Jaeger Regiment
LAPLAND, Finland – Conducted north of the Arctic Circle, the Finnish Special Operations Forces Utti Jaeger Regiment hosted Exercise Talvikotka 23 from March 12 – 16, 2023, to enhance and exchange winter warfare tactics and techniques with U.S. Army 10th […]
7th SFG(A) and Eglin Strike 2022
7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) carried out Eglin Strike, a multi-echelon Area Operating Base (AOB) exercise July 13-30, 2022, in and around Eglin AFB. Eglin Strike is designed to be a scalable and sustainable situational training exercise (STX) designed to certify and validate Operational Detachment Alpha’s (ODA) readiness and proficiency.
SOCNORTH Increases Arctic Capabilities During Arctic Edge 2022
Story by Daisy Bueno. Special Operations Forces (SOF) from the Army, Navy, Air Force worked with the U.S. Coast Guard, international partners, local and state police, interagency and Alaskan natives to execute extreme cold weather training, expand survival skills and […]
Exercise Chameleon 22-1 – UK SF
Story by Pat Carty. Due to the ongoing situation in Ukraine, I doubt if there were many in the military, especially NATO, who did not expect their training to be either delayed or postponed, due to the necessity to prepare […]
Sea Breeze 2021 – Exercise in the Black Sea
The United States and other NATO countries participated in an extensive military exercise in the Black Sea region entitled Exercise Sea Breeze 2021. The two-week long exercise is a joint, multi-national event with 5,000 personnel, 30 ships, and 40 aircraft […]
Exercise African Lion 2021
African Lion is U.S. Africa Command’s largest annual exercise. This year’s event was hosted by Morocco, Tunisia, and Senegal from June 7-18, 2021. More than 7,000 participants from nine nations trained together with a focus on enhancing readiness for U.S. […]
Black Swan 21 – SOF Exercise in Hungary
Story by Sgt. Monique ONeill and Spc. Therese Prats, SOCEUR. U.S. Army Green Berets and U.S. Naval Special Warfare Operators trained with NATO allies and partners as they reached initial operational capabilities for the NATO Response Force during Black Swan […]
Invincible Sentry 20 – Uzbekistan
U.S. Central Command conducted Invincible Sentry 20, a bilateral exercise hosted by the government of Uzbekistan in military training facilities within the Tashkent region from February 24 to March 2, 2020. Invincible Sentry 20 was a crisis response rehearsal designed […]
DEFENDER-Europe 20
The ability for the United States to reinforce NATO in Europe in the event of a conventional war with Russia will be the centerpiece of DEFENDER-Europe 20. This months-long exercise will take place from February to April this year. Editorial […]
5th SFG Hosts Egyptian Commandos for Partnership Training
Soldiers of the 5th Special Forces Group hosted members from the Egyptian Special Operations Unit 999 during a joint training event at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. The two-week training event took place in early February 2020 and was focused on a […]
Southern Strike 2020
Special Tactics Airmen and Green Berets from the 3rd and 20th Special Forces Group participated in Southern Strike 2020. The event was a large-scale, joint multinational combat exercise hosted by the Mississippi Air National Guard. This exercise provided special operators […]
Exercise Eager Lion 19 Held in Jordan
More than 8,000 multinational troops participated in Exercise Eager Lion 19. This is the ninth year of the exercise – an event that provides for multinational interoperability for some 30 nations. The United States contributed about 3,700 troops to the […]
Exercise Faraday Field 19-2
By Pat Carty. Whilst the news that UK Royal Navy is currently escorting British-flagged ships through the Strait of Hormuz seems to have disappeared from world headlines, also the latest situation regarding the increased diplomatic tensions in the Gulf, not […]
Trojan Footprint 19 – SOF in Black Sea Region
In June 2019 the U.S Special Operations Command Europe (SOCEUR) conducted Trojan Footprint 19. In 2018 Trojan Footprint took place in the Baltic states – exercise the rapid deployment of an unconventional warfare capability of U.S. special operations forces. This […]