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Native Fury

The cost ot CINC directed training, for example Native Fury, is funded by CINCCENT. Through joint and combined exercises, such as Native Fury in Qatar, the Marine Corps improves upon its ability to rapidly project forces globally, providing trained, interoperable forces to the combatant commanders.

On 04 August 1992 over 2,000 Marines from the LHA Tarawa start landing on Kuwait beaches during "Eager Mace 92-3". Simultaneously, "Native Fury 92" practiced unloading pre-positioned cargo ships that came up from Diego Garcia.

In June 1993, the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) deployed to Kuwait to conduct Operation Native Fury 1-93 to exercise the global "force-in- readiness" concept. During the Native Fury deployment, multiple Tomahawk missiles were launched at Baghdad in response to the aborted assassination attempt on then-President Bush.

Native Fury 94," a U.S.-Kuwaiti maritime prepositioning exercise in the northern Persian Gulf and Kuwait, commenced 04 April 1994 and continued through April 25. The annual military exercise was conducted under the framework of the Defense Cooperation Agreement between the two countries. Elements of the exercise include off-loading a maritime prepositioning ship, transporting equipment to a field training area, and navigation and aerial strike drills. Some of USCENTCOM's largest readiness exercises in 1994 were NATIVE FURY, which involved the employment of afloat prepositioned equipment demonstrated readiness and mobility.

Native Fury 95 was conducted by the 7th Marines and 1st Tanks in Qatar.

In January 1997 more than 700 active duty and reserve U.S. military personnel from San Diego conducted Exercise Native Fury 97 in the Arabian Gulf nation of Qatar. Native Fury was a huge step forward in really tying together both landward and seaward security. The exercise brought together detachments from Commander, Amphibious Group (COMPHIBGRU) 3; 1st Force Service Support Group; Commander, Naval Beach Group 1; Commander, Naval Inshore Undersea Warfare Group (IUWG)1 and Mobile Inshore Undersea Warfare Unit (MIUWU) 107. The exercise tested command and control procedures, provided intelligence and surveillance training and conducted force protection and cargo off-load operations.

The Marines conducted a 30-day exercise called NATIVE FURY from mid-May through mid-June 1998 in Kuwait. It was a five-phase operation over a two-week period that included downloading approximately 400 pieces of Marine Prepositioned Equipment from an MPS ship. During Native Fury '98 in May 1998, the Diego Garcia-based Vehicle Cargo Ship, Corporal Louis J. Hauge, successfully transferred amphibious assault vehicles, 155mm. howitzers, and M-1 battle tanks, among other items, to the shore. This represented the first large-scale landing of major items of equipment undertaken since the 1990-91 Gulf War. Native Fury '98 included a field training exercise, live fires, and a command post exercise. The purpose of the exercise was to download portions of the MPS, bring in Marines to fall in on the equipment, and then conduct FTXs and CPXs in support of DESERT THUNDER.

Admiral David Brewer, commander of amphibious Group Three, said the month-long exercise is aimed at giving U.S. forces fast reactions capabilities in the area. The exercise includes off-loading equipment from ships by barge to transport it to naval bases, then on to sites in the Kuwaiti Desert. The equipment, including vehicles, is later to be returned to the ships, anchored some five kilometers (three miles) from the Kuwaiti Mohammad al-Ahmad naval base south of Kuwait City. Some 900 U.S. servicemen are taking part in the exercise, which Brewer said is frequently repeated for training purposes by the U.S. navy all over the world.