Southern Seas/UNITAS 2015 - Southern Seas and UNITAS are U.S. Southern Command-sponsored annual collaborative deployments to Central and South America to enhance regional stability and increase interoperability through engagement with partner nations.
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...
Southern Strike is a large scale joint and international combat exercise which features counter insurgency, air supremacy, close air support, enroute casualty care, non-combatant evacuations, and maritime and riverine special operations. The event is held at the Combat Readiness Training Center in Gulfport, Miss.
Exercise Southern Strike 17 is a total force, multi-service training exercise hosted by the Mississippi Air National Guard's Combat Readiness Training Center in Gulfport, Mississippi, from October 24 through November 4, 2016. The SSTK 2017 exercise emphasized air-to-air, air-to-ground, and special operations forces training opportunities. These events are integrated into demanding hostile and...
Southern Strike 2018 is a large-scale, joint multinational combat exercise that provides tactical level training for the full spectrum of conflict. It emphasizes air dominance, maritime operations, maritime air support, precision engagement, close air support, command and control, personnel recovery, aero medical evacuation, and combat medical support. Submit media requests to Major Thaggard:...
Southern Strike 2020 is a large scale, joint and international combat exercise, which features counter insurgency, close air support, enroute casualty care, non-combatant evacuations and special operations. The event will be held at the Combat Readiness Training Center in Gulfport, Miss. from 30 January to 13 February 2020.
Southern Strike 2023 is an exercise hosted by the Mississippi National Guard at the Gulfport Combat Readiness Training Center, Gulfport, Miss. Approximately 2,000 service members from both the active and reserve U.S. military service components are participating in the joint international combat exercise. A combined force of Air National Guard, Army National Guard, Air Force, Navy, Marine, and...
Exercise Southern Vanguard 2022 is a live-fire, air assault exercise between U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and Brazilian army 5th Battalion, 12th Infantry Brigade. Exercise Southern Vanguard is the largest deployment of a U.S Army unit to train with the Brazilian army forces in Brazil and is designed to increase readiness, interoperability and shared military understanding...
