Sea Breeze 2010
Danish, Ukrainian and U.S. Navy divers participated in a variety of dive evolutions during the multinational exercise Sea Breeze 2010 at the Ukrainian Western Naval Base, Odessa, Ukraine, in July 2010. Members from the Danish Navy Dive Academy, Copenhagen; Ukrainian dive team, Search and Rescue Center of the Ukrainian Navy, Sevastopol; UCT 1, Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story, Va.; and Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 8, Sigonella, Italy, trained together daily in controlled environments, both in port and at sea.
Sea Breeze 2010 was the largest exercise this year in the Black Sea, including 20 ships, 13 aircraft and more than 1,600 military members from Azerbaijan, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Moldova, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine and the United States.
Sea Breeze 2011
Service members from the United States, Ukraine, Georgia, Macedonia and Moldova gathered for a brief ceremony 06 June 2011 to officially begin exercise Sea Breeze 2011. Earlier in the morning, the group of multi-national service members had broken the ice with equipment and uniform displays to introduce their armed forces to the other nations. This year’s exercise included amphibious operations, maritime interdiction, improvised explosive device and convoy operations and other platoon level training.
Sea Breeze 2012
SB12 presented challenges many service members had never experienced before, making the exercise a remarkable learning experience. SB12, co-hosted by the Ukrainian and U.S. navies, aimed to improve maritime safety, security and stability engagements in the Black Sea by enhancing the capabilities of Partnership for Peace and Black Sea regional maritime security forces.
Sea Breeze 2013
Exercise Sea Breeze 2013, the 16th iteration of the largest annual multinational maritime exercise in the Black Sea, ended July 20, as representatives from the 14 participating partner nations gathered together for the exercise closing ceremony. Naval, air, and land forces from participating countries worked together both ashore and at sea from July 8-20 in order to strengthen interoperability and to improve maritime security. 'The military leadership of the fourteen nations that participated in Sea Breeze know that we can only improve as a cooperative team if we challenge ourselves,' said Capt. James Aiken, exercise deputy director. 'Only then can we increase our cooperation and our interoperability as we become familiar with each other's military operating procedures and practices.'
Much of the exercise focused on maritime interdiction operations as a primary means to enhance maritime security. The other key component was utilizing sea basing to conduct a range of operations ashore such as non-combatant evacuation to humanitarian assistance/disaster relief. This year's participants included Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Canada, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine and U.S., along with France, Libya, Qatar, and United Arab Emirates, as observers. Sea Breeze 13, co-hosted by the Ukrainian and U.S. navies, aimed to improve maritime safety, security and stability engagements in the Black Sea by enhancing the capabilities of Partnership for Peace and Black Sea regional maritime security forces.
Sea Breeze 2014
On 08 September 2014, multinational naval exercises Sea Breeze - 2014 begin in the Black Sea. The exercise involved ships of the second NATO permanent maritime group of five NATO countries, as well as Ukraine and Georgia. "Much of the exercises will focus on the operations of interception as the main method of improving safety at sea," Communication and Engagement Director at the U.S. European Command Captain Greg Hicks commented on the tasks of the exercises. Other key components focusd on working on interaction, exercises, search and rescue at sea, navigation and military protection.
Participating in the Sea Breeze 2014 exercises were units and warships of the Navy of the United States, Canada, Spain, Turkey, Romania, and Ukraine and Georgia. It is expected that the exercises will involve 12 ships, including seven - from the Ukrainian side. Exercises, which will continue from September 8 to September 10, were held under the auspices of the Partnership for Peace program.
Sea Breeze has always gained notable suspicion from Russia; however, during theSea Breeze 2014 exercise, the Kremlin decided for the first time to conduct a snap exercise of its own during the same period also within the Black Sea. Russia’s snap exercise consisted of 20 ships and 20 aircraft including SU-24 fighters with a scenario directed toward the destruction of enemy ships in the sea and organization of air defense of naval groups and coastal infrastructure.
Sea Breeze 2015
USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) and Ukrainian navy ship UKRS Hetman Sahaydachniy (U130) moored in Odesa, Ukraine for Sea Breeze 2015. Sea Breeze is an air, land and maritime exercise designed to improve maritime safety, security and stability in the Black Sea.
Sea Breeze 2016
Naval phase of the US-led multinational Sea Breeze 2016 drills began in Ukrainian Odessa 18 July 2016. The exercise itself was preceded by the ceremonial part visited by Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak and the US ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt among others, Ukraine 112 TV channel reported. US and Ukrainian forces commenced the 15th iteration of Sea Breeze on July 18. The 2016 exercises involved about 2,300 personnel and 25 vessels from 13 nations.
Sea Breeze 2017
Sea Breeze 2017 was a U.S. Naval Forces Europe-led multinational exercise supporting Partnership for Peace July 11-21, 2017 in the Black Sea. Contributes to SG17 by providing escort as 2nd Cavalry Regiment leaves the joint operations area following SG17, transits the Black Sea, and arrives in Georgia for U.S.-led exercise Noble Partner 2017. U.S. Marines assigned to U.S. Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa secure the beach after an amphibious landing in Nikolaev, Ukraine, during exercise Sea Breeze 2017, July 19. Sea Breeze is a U.S. and Ukraine co-hosted multinational maritime exercise held in the Black Sea and is designed to enhance interoperability of participating nations and strengthen maritime security within the region.
Sea Breeze 2018
The 18th iteration of exercise Sea Breeze kicked off following opening ceremonies in Odessa and Shiroky Lan training range, Ukraine, 09 July 2018. Sea Breeze is a U.S. and Ukraine co-hosted multinational maritime exercise held in the Black Sea and is designed to enhance interoperability of participating nations and strengthen maritime security within the region. Sea Breeze is designed to enhance interoperability among participating nations and strengthen regional security by focusing on a variety of warfare areas. Some of the training areas include maritime interdiction operations, air defense, antisubmarine warfare, damage control tactics, search and rescue, and amphibious warfare.
U.S. participation includes the command and control ship USS Mount Whitney; the guided missile destroyer USS Porter; a P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft from Patrol Squadron 10; Marines from Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment; Navy Underwater Construction Team 1 divers; and members of the U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa and U.S. 6th Fleet staff.
Sea Breeze 2019
Exercise Sea Breeze 2019 (SB19) ended with a closing ceremony in Odesa Ukraine, July 12, 2019, after two weeks of intense, multinational training. Sea Breeze’s 19th iteration began July 1 and was designed to enhance interoperability among participating nations and strengthen regional security by focusing on a variety of security and stability scenarios in the areas of land, sea and air.During SB19, more than 3,000 participants trained in areas including maritime interdiction operations, air defense, special forces training, anti-submarine warfare, damage control tactics, search and rescue and amphibious warfare. Those same participants spent more than 200 hours underwater conducting dive training and more than 200 in the air conducting air component training.
Countries included Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, Georgia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom. U.S. participation included the Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64), the expeditionary fast-transport ship USNS Yuma (T-EPF 8), a P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, U.S. Marines from Marine Rotational Force-Europe; Navy Underwater Construction Team UCT-1B, and members of the U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa and U.S. 6th Fleet staff.
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