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KOUVOLA, Finland -- Finnish Special Operations forces from the Utti Jaeger Regiment and U.S. Air Force 352d Special Operations Wing participated in a bilateral training, Jan. 28-31, 2025, at Utti Jaeger Regiment base, Finland.
The training included airdrop operations in cold weather conditions utilizing the 352d SOW’s MC-130J Commando II.
"The desired learning objective is familiarization with an allied force,” said the 352d SOW exercise mission commander. “With Finland joining NATO, we want them to gain familiarization of aircraft and procedures involving both cargo and personnel airdrops using proper safety procedures.”
This training qualifies forces from the Utti Jaeger Regiment on static line jumps, military free-fall – both high-altitude high-opening and high-altitude low-opening – jumps, allowing Finnish jumpmasters to perform required maneuvers with U.S. personnel and aircraft.
“We've worked with the Finnish military before, but this will be the first time with the Utti Jaegers since Finland joined NATO,” said the mission commander. “The 352d, and U.S. forces are proficient and well-versed in airdrop and Utti Jaegers are experts in extreme cold weather environments. We can take our combined experience and put them together to get a better product.”
A U.S. Space Force guardian assigned to the 352d SOW used the exercise as an opportunity to integrate with SOF operations by providing digital force protection capabilities, allowing U.S. forces to characterize malicious electromagnetic activities through signature matching and anomaly detection.
“Testing these sensors allows for higher fidelity in characterizing interference used by adversaries,” said the Guardian. “With this exercise we seek to build our knowledge base and better understand processes and procedures to set up a baseline of operations for future deployments of these sensors or others like it.”
| Date Taken: | 01.31.2025 |
| Date Posted: | 02.11.2025 04:54 |
| Story ID: | 490446 |
| Location: | KOUVOLA, FI |
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