Overview
- Roughly 3,000 U.S. Marines will train alongside about 25,000 troops from a dozen allied nations in March.
- U.S. forces will include special operations units, a Navy Seabee detachment, and aircraft such as F-35A fighters, P-8 patrol planes, KC-135 tankers and HH60W helicopters.
- The exercise is designed to prove a Camp Lejeune–based Marine air-ground task force can rapidly deploy across the Atlantic in support of NATO operations.
- Preparations are underway in Norway with cold-weather unit training and inspections of pre-positioned Marine Corps equipment.
- Political tensions continue as President Trump pressed for negotiations on Greenland at Davos while saying the U.S. would not use force, France proposed a NATO exercise on the island, and NATO leaders stressed alliance cohesion in Brussels.