Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Cobra Gold Military Exercise - Joint Forces #2

Cobra Gold Military Exercise - Joint Forces #2
(NSI News Source Info) February 11, 2009: Cobra Gold 09 Combined/Joint Information Bureau, U.S. Seaman Christopher Smith from Washington, D.C., directs a Landing Craft as it departs from the beach after transporting Marines and equipment ashore for the Cobra Gold joint military exercise at Sattahip Naval Base in Chonburi province, southeastern Thailand Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009.
The two-week long annual joint exercise involving with nearly 12,000 soldiers from Thailand, the United States, Singapore, Japan, and Indonesia, is considered the largest military operations in the Southeast Asia region.On February 6, 2009 in Sattahip, southeastern Thailand, and released by the US Navy, a Landing Craft Utility (LCU) 1631 from Assault Craft Unit One arrives from the forward-deployed amphibious dock landing ship USS Tortuga (LSD 46) to off load Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit to participate in Exercise Cobra Gold 09.

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