Approximately 320 military personnel from Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, Djibouti, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and the United States will participate in this combined-joint exercise. The exercise is designed to enhance participants’ capability to plan and employ its forces to effectively counter violent extremist organizations as well as enhancing cooperation and coordination among participating...
Eastern Accord is a Command Post Exercise focused on Peace
Operations. Partner nations and U.S. forces will form a Combined Joint Task
Force to exercise participants' capability and capacity to conduct peace
operations using African Union Standard Operating Procedures.
Eastern Maverick 19 (EM 19) is CENTCOM Directed, NAVCENT executed annual bilateral amphibious/land-based exercise to strengthen critical warfighting capabilities and enhance interoperability and operational readiness. U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Qatari Forces will be participating in EM 19. The exercise takes place 25-29 November 2018, on beachfronts and a live-fire range in Qatar. Exercise...
Eastern Sailor 19 is an annual, bilateral surface exercise between the U.S.
Navy and the Qatar Emiri Naval Forces. The U.S. military participates in more
than 80 exercises with partner nations in the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM)
area of responsibility each year. This exercise serves to expand levels of
cooperation between the U.S. Navy and Qatari Forces to build strength through...
The EC-130H Compass Call is an airborne tactical weapon system using a heavily modified version of the C-130 Hercules airframe. The system disrupts enemy command and control communications and limits adversary coordination essential for enemy force management. The Compass Call system employs offensive counter-information and electronic attack (or EA) capabilities in support of U.S. and...
The 43rd Expeditionary Electronic Combat Squadron is currently deployed to an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia. The squadron operates EC-130H Compass Call aircraft in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, the coalition effort to militarily defeat Da’esh by, with and through regional partners. The aircraft are all deployed out of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz.
Airmen from the 193rd Special Operations Wing will bring to close a 54-year chapter in unit history as an EC-130J Commando Solo aircraft assigned here delivers its final broadcast.
The EC-130J Commando Solo transmits air-to-ground civil affairs broadcasts in FM, TV and military communications bands. It has been in continuous operation since 2003 and is the only airborne Military Information...
On April 16th a magnitude 7.8 earthquake was centered 16 miles
south-southeast of Muisne, Ecuador, causing infrastructure damage, deaths
and injuries.
