DTN News: Australian And Combined Forces Undertaking Their Final Training Exercise Prior Deployment In Helmand Province, Afghanistan

DTN News: Australian And Combined Forces Undertaking Their Final Training Exercise Prior Deployment In Helmand Province, Afghanistan *Source: DTN News / Int'l Media (NSI News Source Info) ROCKHAMPTON, Australia - July 23, 2009: Australian soldiers from the 3rd Battalion jumps over an obstacle as his unit joins an attack with the U.S Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) during the combined urban combat training exercise as part of Exercise Talisman Saber 2009 at the Urban Operations Training Facility, Shoalwater Bay Training Area on July 22, 2009 in Rockhampton, Australia. An Australian soldier in combat training exercise as part of Exercise Talisman Saber 2009 at the Urban Operations Training Facility, Shoalwater Bay Training Area on July 22, 2009 in Rockhampton, Australia.

The recreated urban environment is fitted with a live tracking system to record and analyze the tactics of the personnel involved, who are training to improve the interoperability of the Australian and U.S. military forces so as they can come together quickly and execute whatever mission necessary should the need arise.

British forces undertaking their final training exercise before deployment in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Prime Minister Gordon Brown dismissed remarks by one of his ministers Wednesday that Britain does not have enough helicopters in Afghanistan, as he sought to move past a damaging row over resources.

Brown said the remarks to a newspaper by outgoing junior Foreign Office minister Lord Mark Malloch-Brown had been misrepresented and repeated his insistence that British troops had everything they need.