Special ops run training missions on Guam

[unhappycamper]

Special ops run training missions on Guam
Staff report
Posted : Saturday Nov 17, 2007 8:38:16 EST

U.S. special operations forces recently practiced quick-reaction strike missions on Guam in an exercise aimed at testing the readiness of the Pacific region’s Joint Task Force-510.

The two-week exercise focused on special operations forces responding quickly to contingencies and conducting indirect operations through friendly nations, according to a recent Army Special Operations Command statement.

“Fortune Maker 2007” consisted of command post and field training events with notional host nation forces. Army, Navy and Air Force special operations performed operational missions in support of the exercise.

The majority of Special Operations Command-Pacific forces operated on Guam, with some forces in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and others in surrounding waters.

The Air Force and Navy special operations forces conducted a Maritime Craft Aerial Delivery System drop operation, in which Navy SEALs were airdropped from an MC-130 aircraft into the ocean, the release states. They boarded their vessels and were underway in less than 10 minutes of their watercraft entering the water. Additionally, Army forces interacted closely with Guam National Guard and local police — acting as host nation forces — and conducted combined missions to locate notional terrorists on nearby islands, according to the release.

“The exercise was designed to bring JTF-510 together on short notice to test our capability to rapidly deploy and respond to crisis situations,” Maj. Gen. Salvatore F. Cambria, SOCPAC, said in the release. “Our forces performed extremely well, and are now better trained and more capable to serve U.S. Pacific Command.”


Article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/11/army_guamtraining_071117w/

[Islander Expat]

1. They do this every year.

Big Specwar exercise on Guam, nothing unusual.