Spanish Special forces personnel talk about the purpose of their joint training with US, Czech and Slovenian Special Forces at Almagro Air Base, Spain, during military exercise Trident Juncture 2015.
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SOUNDBITE (SPANISH), Spanish Press Officer, Almagro Air Base
‘The Trident Juncture 2015 exercise is an exercise will allow us to get certified for the NATO Response Force 2016. So we’ll be the only Special Forces helicopter unit that will support Special Forces within NATO.’
‘This exercise is about cross training between different Special Forces teams and they will do a special flight and rescue exercise. So through this we will get an better interoperability between Special Forces.’
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SOUNDBITE (SPANISH), Captain Bustos, Chief of HALO/LALO (high altitude low opening/low altitude low opening), Special Forces, Spain
‘We’re in Almagro Air Base doing a exercise with Czech and US Special Forces doing an interoperability exercise for Trident Juncture 2015’
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SOUNDBITE (SPANISH), Lt Col Pedro Herguedas, Commander, Special Forces Group IV « Tercio del Ampurdan »
‘We are in the base, Las Fuerzas Aeromoviles del Ejercito de Tierra, where we have together, Spanish, American and Czech Special Forces along with SOTU (Special Operations Task Force) personnel, which consists of 30 Czech and Slovenian forces. The objective of the exercise is to integrate Spanish, American, Czech and Slovenian forces in different aircraft platforms so we can be ready to perform Special Forces tasks, no matter the different procedures from aircraft to aircraft. It has been an intense and useful exercise, thanks to all the various assets.’
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