10/29/2015: The Royal Netherlands Navy is preparing for participation in the NATO Response Force (NRF) by conducting amphibious landing training off the coast of Spain as part of Exercise Trident Juncture 2015. The Netherlands is commanding an amphibious task force during the exercise, consisting of a maritime staff aboard the…
10/23/2015: The live portion of Trident Juncture – NATO’s biggest exercise in over a decade, kicks off today. Portuguese “Fuzileiros” Marines and U.S. Marines put forces ashore in a beach in Pinheiro da Cruz from the USS Arlington in an amphibious assault training exercise. Meanwhile in San Gregorio, Spain, the Baltic…
04/22/2015: The Baltic Battalion -- not to be confused with the Battalion of the same name formed in the 1990’s – is a new initiative combining Estonian, Latvia and Lithuanian forces. In 2014, the battalion began preparations for the 2016 rotation of the NATO Response Force (NRF) and is due…
