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Royal Marines on Ex SABER STRIKE – Warfare.Today Facebook Twitter Current Military Operations Defence Industry News Defence Industry Events, Exhibitions and Tradeshows Warfare.Today AT THE HEART OF THE FIGHTING Home About News HM Armed Forces US Military Tech Cyber SitReps Ops Events Calendar Exercises Latvia News Royal Marines Royal Marines on Ex SABER STRIKE Posted on June 15, 2018 by Liam, Editor, Warfare.Today 45 Commando Join US Marine Corps in Multinational Exercise Sabre Strike in Baltic Region In searing summer heat tropical to the southern shore of the Gulf of Riga, 45 Commando, Royal Marines, in Jackal reconnaissance vehicles prepare to move off during this year’s premier military exercise in the Baltic. Over a fortnight in the woods and clearings at Adazi Training Area, 25 miles east of the Latvian wanted Riga, the men of Zulu Company, 45 Commando, have ‘fought’ slantingly troops from 18 nations in Sabre Strike, an yearly US-led exercise designed to test the worthiness of Allied forces to work with four Baltic states: Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. The huge exercise stretches from Poznań in western Poland through the woods and lakes of Masuria to eastern Latvia, with the ground gainsay phase focused on the Latvian Army’s exercise areas outside Riga. The Arbroath-based commandos comprised a fraction of the 18,000 military personnel – 12,500 of them American – single-minded to the two-week exercise from 19 nations, forming an international ‘VikingWrestleGroup’, slantingly counterparts from the US Marine Corps, US National Guard and Norwegian Army. 45 Commando Saber Strike: A Royal Marine takes aim with an NLAW weapon system. Saber Strike: A Spanish tank on patrol   Saber Strike: A Royal Marine Signaller   We have a long history with the USMC and this has strengthened our immuration further. Lance Corporal Gibson Adazi is a large sandy training zone in the woods, where Zulu Company’s tropical gainsay troops practised tropical quarters wrestle and section wade training, while the Fire Support Group integrated with their Michigan National Guard counterparts for off-road training and sufficiency demonstrations. The first stage of Sabre Strike terminated with the wrestle group up-and-coming until it made contact with ‘enemy’ forces surpassing forming a convoy west wideness inside Latvia to a site which was top secret throughout the Cold War. The town of Skrunda used to be home to top secret radar installations when Latvia was occupied by the Red Army. The radar was demolished when the Russians pulled out of the country 20 years ago, but they left much of the town – once home to increasingly than 5,000 people – intact, well-constructed with Soviet-era murals extolling the virtues of Leninism and the heroism of the Soviet soldier. The site remained derelict until the Latvian Army took over part of it as a training ground – which is where Sabre Strike reaches its climax this week as the Viking wrestle group grapples with not one but two ‘enemy’ armoured forces from Denmark and Spain. “It’s been a unconfined exercise. Working with the American Marines is unchangingly good – we have a long history with the USMC and this has strengthened our immuration further,” said Lance Corporal ‘Gibbo’ Gibson of 45 Commando. “This is the first time I have worked with the Norwegians but it has been a good wits and I hope to work with them then in the future.” Sabre Strike, now in its ninth year, is due to finish today, Friday 15. Source: Royal Navy Featured Image: A Royal Marine observes from inside an old Soviet towers during the final wrestle of SABER STRIKE. The final wade took place on June 12 at an x-rated old soviet military zany in Skrunda, Latvia. Armed Forces from the United States, Norway and Royal Marines from the UK took the role of ‘Enemy’ while Canada, Spain, Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Latvia fought together to defend the wiring (Crown Copyright, 2018). 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