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- The exercise includes staff-planning events as well as field training that simulate moving a humanitarian assistance/disaster relief force from ship to shore.
- Indian Task force
(1) INS Airavat, a landing ship tank, including its integral landing crafts and helicopters and hydrographic survey ship INS Sandhayak, operating as a hospital ship are participating in the exercise.
(2) The Indian Army will deploy one battalion group comprising troops from the 19 Madras and BMP-II infantry combat vehicles from 7 Guards unit.
(3) The Indian Air Force is deploying one C-130J super Hercules aircraft, Mi-17 transport helicopters and rapid action medical team.
- US Task force
(1) The US Task Force consists of US Navy Ship German Town, a landing ship dock with integral landing craft air cushions and amphibious assault vehicles and specially trained troops from the US III Marine Expeditionary Force.
(2) The joint force comprises marine mechanised rifle company, a marine logistics element and medical regulatory team.
- Aim of exercise- The training events are expected to increase US-India military-to-military relations and learning about the best practices and standard operation practices (SOPs) in disaster and humanitarian response
Source
The Hindu