Northern Strike is an Army National Guard sponsored, multi-component, multinational exercise designed to build readiness and enhance interoperability with allied forces to fight and win. Northern Strike 23-2, Michigan’s largest and longest exercise designed to validate readiness of the joint reserve force, is held Aug. 5 to 19, 2023 at the National All-Domain Warfighting Center. This year's...
Exercise Southern Star 23 is a Chilean led full-scale Special Operations, Joint, and Combined Employment Exercise. The training consists of staff planning, tactical maneuvers and collaboration among SOUTHCOM components’ staff, Chilean Armed Forces and interagency partners during stabilization scenario which facilitates the opportunity for participants to execute and assess the staff’s...
I Marine Expeditionary Force Commanding General Lt. Gen. George W. Smith, Jr. will relinquish command to Maj. Gen. Bradford J. Gering during a succession of command ceremony at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Aug. 18, 2023.
Integrated Training Exercise (ITX) is a service level training exercise (SLTE) and the annual capstone Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) training event for Marine Forces Reserve (MFR). ITX provides the premier live-fire combined arms training venue to assess readiness of designated units in support of Strategic Reserve Mobilization Requirements.
JPMRC facilitates unit readiness in the Indo-Pacific region and allows commanders to train their forces in the unique environments and conditions where they are most likely to campaign or be employed in the event of crisis. JPMRC consists of three parts: Hawaii-based training (HI), Alaska-based training (AK), and an exportable (X) capability. JPMRC leverages the unique joint training...
Checkered Flag, one of the Department of Defense’s largest air-to-air exercises, is a large-scale aerial exercise which fosters readiness and interoperability, designed to integrate fourth and fifth-generation airframes to enhance mobility, deployment, and employment capabilities of aviators and maintainers. The two-week long exercise focuses on integration of the F-22 Raptor and F-35A...
African Lion 23 is U.S. Africa Command's largest, premier, joint, annual exercise hosted by Morocco, Ghana, Senegal and Tunisia. The African Lion exercise is one of many annual exercises and exchanges that the Utah National Guard will support this year to commemorate the 20th anniversary of its State Partnership Program with Morocco. Primarily supporting June 4-18, the UTNG is sending...
After BMT, trainees take on the 7-week Special Warfare Candidate's Course. At SWCC, trainees learn how to keep their bodies and mind in peak shape through exercise, proper eating and more so that when they arrive at Assessment and Selection or the TACP Apprentice Course, they're ready for the challenge.
