DefenceTalkSoldiers from the 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, partnered with the 91st Training Support Division, July 10 through Aug. 7, during Warrior Exercise, or WAREX, 15-03. Lt. Col. Paul McCarthy, deputy commanding officer, 91st Training Support Division, said the WAREX was designed to provide relevant and realistic […]https://www.defencetalk.com/iron-rangers-support-total-army-concept-during-exercise-64967/

DefenceTalkMore than 400 Army paratroopers, from the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, parachuted from seven C-17 Globemasters onto Kapyong Air Field, Australia, as part of Exercise Talisman Sabre 15, July 8. Talisman Sabre is a biennial exercise, which provides an invaluable opportunity for nearly 30,000 U.S. and Australian personnel to conduct operations in […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-service-members-head-down-under-for-talisman-sabre-15-64842/

DefenceTalkGeorgian troops on Wednesday launched joint military exercises with United States marines and soldiers from four Eastern European NATO members, the pro-Western ex-Soviet nation’s defence ministry said. The drills dubbed “Agile Spirit 2015” are part of a “substantive package” of measures aimed at bringing Georgia — which has long sought full NATO membership — closer […]https://www.defencetalk.com/georgia-launches-joint-drills-with-five-nato-countries-64840/

DefenceTalkAccording to the Chinese Defence Ministry, Beijing’s navy held a military drill to rehearse resupplying missiles in a combat situation, the first of its kind. Conducted in the Yellow Sea between the Chinese mainland and the Korean Peninsula, the exercises involved aircraft and sea vessels, as well as ground troops, and featured live-fire drills of […]https://www.defencetalk.com/chinese-navy-simulates-combat-missile-resupply-in-first-ever-drill-64810/

DefenceTalkJOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska: Its wide muzzle, short black broad nose with large nostrils and deep-set, dark eyes grimace intimidation across the patch on the right shoulder of the pilot boarding his aircraft while preparing to engage an enemy in the joint interoperability environment that is Northern Edge 2015. The intimidation the 525th Fighter Squadron […]https://www.defencetalk.com/f-22-raptors-bring-intimidation-to-exercise-northern-edge-64694/

DefenceTalkMARINE CORPS AIR GROUND COMBAT CENTER TWENTYNINE PALMS: Halfway into a 109-degree day, without a cloud in the sky and nothing but sand as far as the eye could see, a small number of Marines and sailors were prepared to do their job and be the difference between life and death. 4th Medical Battalion, 4th […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-marines-sailors-participate-in-a-mass-heat-casualty-exercise-64682/

DefenceTalkNATO flexed its muscles Thursday in Poland during the first full drill of its new spearhead force, a structure designed to boost security on its eastern flank in the wake of Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. Around 2,100 soldiers from nine NATO states grouped in the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) took […]https://www.defencetalk.com/nato-flexes-muscles-in-poland-war-games-64565/

DefenceTalkRussia and Egypt are holding their first-ever joint naval exercises, the defence ministry said Wednesday, in a bid to strengthen ties amid Moscow’s confrontation with the West. “The active phase of joint Russian-Egyptian naval exercises called The Bridge of Friendship-2015 started today in the Mediterranean Sea near the shores of Egypt,” the Russian defence ministry […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-and-egypt-hold-first-ever-joint-naval-drills-64462/

DefenceTalkDRAWSKO POMORSKIE TRAINING AREA, Poland: Standing in an open field, a sea of Soldiers salute four different flags flying side-by-side. Despite being from different countries, the raising of the flags represents the beginning of a historic training exercise amongst allies. U.S., Polish, German and Danish Soldiers gathered for the opening ceremony of Saber Strike 15, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/exercise-saber-strike-15-begins-in-poland-64444/

DefenceTalkThree B-52 Stratofortresses assigned to the 5th Bomb Wing, Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, deployed today to Royal Air Force (RAF) Fairford, United Kingdom. The deployment demonstrates the United States’ ability to project its flexible, long-range global strike capability and provides opportunities to synchronize strategic activities and capabilities with allies and partners in the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/b-52s-to-demo-long-range-strategic-capabilities-in-europe-64430/