It’s not unusual to see camouflage-clad soldiers and vehicles throughout Switzerland. Every male between the ages of 18 and 35 can be conscripted into the Army, and after 21 weeks’ basic training you keep your weapon and undergo additional training, followed by reserve duty.
Airmen assigned to the Ohio National Guard’s 123rd Air Control Squadron hosted a two-week combined training exercise with six service members from NATO allies Lithuania, Latvia and Hungary.
More than 17,600 members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the U.S. military participated in Balikatan 2023, an annual bilateral exercise between the two allies and the largest iteration of Balikatan to date.
Standing NATO Maritime Group Two concluded a scheduled port visit to Souda Bay, Greece, with its flagship USS James E. Williams (USA) as well as HMCS Fredericton (Canada), HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën (Netherlands), and ITS Paolo Thaon di Revel (Italy).
U.S. Army North, North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command’s Joint Force Land Component Command, participated in Exercise VIGILANT SHIELD 23, a bi-national homeland defense exercise between the U.S. and Canada from 11-19 April.
Schriever Wargame, which concluded on 31 March, presented a global scenario depicting a notional peer competitor seeking to achieve strategic goals by conducting multi-domain operations.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is working with the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) on a series of Service-Level Training Exercises (SLTE) using a company-owned MQ-9A Unmanned Aircraft System to support the Marine Air-Ground Task Force Training Command (MAGTFTC).
Standing NATO Maritime Group Two visited Souda Bay, Greece, with its flagship USS James E. Williams as well as HMCS Fredericton, HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën, and ITS Paolo Thaon di Revel.