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Rota Region Participates in Trident Juncture 2015

Navy News Service

Story Number: NNS151030-10
Release Date: 10/30/2015 12:06:00 PM

From Naval Station Rota Public Affairs

NAVAL STATION ROTA, Spain (NNS) -- There were many more moving parts than usual around Naval Station Rota, Oct. 19-23, as the base hosted training scenarios as just a small part of the NATO-led multinational exercise Trident Juncture 2015.

Along the Rota pier, Marines assigned to 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, worked with Spanish nationals to unload gear and vehicles from the Military Sealift Command's maritime prepositioning ship USNS Sgt. William R. Button (T-AK 3012) and stage them for a training scenario, which entailed a road march from Rota to Alvarez de Sotomayor to perform field operations with the British Royal Marines.

Just 70 miles northeast, another portion of the exercise was underway. Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 1 build two training structures at Sierra del Retin, which provided a realistic training environment for the participating forces to use during exercise scenarios. NMCB 1 also constructed shoot houses in Chinchilla, Spain, and Setubal, Portugal.

Training scenarios were not only being conducted on land, but at sea and in the air as well.

Marines assigned to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit embarked aboard the amphibious transport dock ship USS Arlington (LPD 24), and Portuguese Marines completed an amphibious beach assault at a beach in Pinheiro Da Cruz, Portugal, Oct. 20. The assault, via landing craft air-cushion and helicopters, demonstrated how well the U.S. and Portuguese Marines can work together; how inter-operable the U.S. equipment and tactics are with allied nations; and the flexibility of NATO forces.

Trident Juncture 2015 demonstrates NATO's commitment to allies, partners and organizations, focusing on deepening cooperation, collective defenses and interoperability, while testing NATO response force capabilities. Trident Juncture is the largest NATO exercise to be conducted in the past 20 years, with around 36,000 troops from more than 30 nations, to include both NATO allies and partners.