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Although i dont know for sure myself Ive been told by my expat friend that Phuket/Patong occasionally gets its share of US navy calling in during the exercise or just before the exercise and that they tend to blend in very well with the tourists. Although it is not on the same scale as Pattaya during the exercise where military police are crawling all over the place with sidearms, hawaian shirts and handcuffs.
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COBRA GOLD 2005 (CG 05)
COUNTRIES: Thailand, Singapore, United States
Dates: 02 - 13 May 2005
COBRA GOLD is an annual multilateral exercise that demonstrates USPACOM's capability to project force strategically by rapidly deploying a CTF to conduct Joint/Combined operations. For CG 05, U.S. forces combine with Thai, Singaporean, Japanese and Philippine counterparts, under a coalition Combined/Joint Headquarters (CTF), to conduct extensive Command Post Exercise (CPX) training, Humanitarian/Civic Assistance (H/CA) projects, and Field Training Exercise (FTX) to include combined live fire training. The exercise scenario content is designed toward peace operations and consequence management emphasizing the challenges on the war on terrorism. CG continues as the model for multilateral CTF Command Post Exercise (CPX) operation in a smaller scale contingency. Training is multilateral, multi-service, interagency, realistic and geared toward the most likely contingency operations in theater - UN PKO/PEO/CM/CT. CG 05 will be the 24th iteration in the CG series.
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