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U.S. Navy, Multinational Partners Host Demonstration During Sea Breeze 2011

Navy News Service

Story Number: NNS110613-01
6/13/2011

By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Stephen Oleksiak, Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th Fleet Public Affairs

SHIROKILAN, Ukraine (NNS) -- Multinational partners hosted a joint land component demonstration for local media during exercise Sea Breeze 2011, June 11.

Marines from Denmark, Macedonia, Moldova, Ukraine and the U.S., demonstrated a variety of land-based countermeasure operations including convoy operations, counter improvised explosive device procedures, counter attack techniques, vehicle checkpoint protocol, non-lethal combat techniques and medical evacuation procedures.

"Exercises like [Sea Breeze] stress the importance of building relationships, capabilities and capacity that allow us to operate together when necessary," said Capt. Daniel Schebler, Exercise Sea Breeze 2011 deputy exercise director. "It is essential that we train together so that when the time comes we can operate as an efficient team."

Multinational marines demonstrated working together through a variety of training evolutions.

"Right now we're working together to perfect our techniques," said Ukrainian Capt. Denis Berezosky. "We wanted to see how real world scenarios would play out, and evolutions like these allow to us to see and analyze every part of the training and cooperation."

Training evolutions conducted during Sea Breeze allow U.S. and multinational partners to be able to plan and operate proficiently when combating global threats.

"It's about maritime safety and security," said Schebler. "We face threats nowadays that cross national borders, and it's important that we train and work together to counter those threats, whether it's to counter trafficking of drugs, persons, or weapons, or issues such as piracy in the Black and Mediterranean Seas and around the world."

Air, land and naval forces from Azerbaijan, Algeria, Belgium, Denmark, Georgia, Germany, Macedonia, Moldova, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and the United States will participate in Sea Breeze 2011, the largest multinational maritime exercise this year in the Black Sea, June 6-18, and is co-hosted by the Ukrainian and U.S. navies.

Exercise Sea Breeze 2011 aims to improve maritime safety, security and stability actions in the Black Sea by enhancing the capabilities of Partnership for Peace and Black Sea regional maritime security forces.