[MilCom] [UDXF] 104th FW

Bob Wilczynski wizski_roller at comcast.net
Sat Jun 2 12:26:51 EDT 2012


Group,

I found them...

Largest U.S. exercise in Middle East furtively taking place in Jordan. 
Involving 19 countries and 12,000 military /May 19, 2012/

Almost ignored by some media outlets, a major strategic theater 
cooperation exercise including 19 countries and more than 12,000 
participants is currently taking place in Jordan.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) says 
<http://www.centcom.mil/press-releases/eager-lion-2012-exercise> that 
the Eager Lion 2012 is "the largest annual exercise in the Central 
Command area of operations" whose is aim is "to strengthen 
military-to-military relationships of participating partner nations 
through a joint, whole-of-government, multinational approach, 
integrating all instruments of national power to meet current and future 
complex national security challenges. The exercise scenarios are 
designed to portray realistic, modern-day security challenges. The 
scenarios are designed years in advance to fulfill collaborative 
training goals."

Although "annual", this year's Eager Lion seems to be a bit different 
from 2011 edition: what does not pass unnoticed is that the drills are 
no longer bilateral (U.S. -- Jordan) but involve the military of 17 
different countries.

Participating countries are Australia, Bahrain, Brunei, Egypt, France, 
Italy, Iraq, Jordan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, Pakistan, 
Qatar, Spain, Romania, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and 
United States.

Even if officials strongly denied the drills are aimed at any realistic 
threats in the region, the fact that the U.S. is amassing forces in 
Middle East seems to be a sign that Washington (along with several close 
and less close partners) is preparing to manage a large crisis response 
operation in that part of the globe.

In fact, there are fears that the Syrian uprising 
<http://theaviationist.com/category/syria/> will force thousands refuge 
into Jordan across Syria's southern border. And, there is also a 
specific concern that Assad regime could lose control of some its 
chemical and biological weapons stocks, that could illicitly smuggled 
into Jordan, as reported by the CNN 
<http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/15/thousands-amass-in-jordan-for-major-military-exercise/>.

Eager Lion, headquartered at Kasotc (King Abdullah II Special Operation 
Training Center), in Amman, focuses on irregular warfare, special 
operations, counterinsurgency and crisis response.

Little is known about the participating units. Just a few press releases 
and some images published on Flickr days after the exercise kicked off 
give an idea of what is currently operating in Jordan whilst there is 
almost no or little information about the assets and troops brought in 
by the rest of the coalition partners.

Among the most interesting ones, there are the Marines with the 24th 
Marine Expeditionary Unit and Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group (with the 
MV-22 Osprey tit rotor aircraft of the VMM-261 
<http://theaviationist.com/2012/04/11/osprey-crash/>) and the U.S. Air 
Force F-15s of the 104th Fighter Wing 
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/ccdet/7215032210/in/photostream>, 
Massachusetts Air National Guard, deployed to Mwaffaq Al Salti Air Base 
within the 131 EFS (Expeditionary Fighter Squadron).

<http://cencio4.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/f15.jpg>



On 6/2/2012 12:02 PM, Joost de Raaf wrote:
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> Believe they went to Afghanistan on April 5th
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> Van: UDXF at yahoogroups.com <mailto:UDXF%40yahoogroups.com> 
> [mailto:UDXF at yahoogroups.com <mailto:UDXF%40yahoogroups.com>] Namens Bob
> Wilczynski
> Verzonden: zaterdag 2 juni 2012 17:40
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> Onderwerp: [UDXF] 104th FW
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> Group,
>
> Anyone hear from the F15's of the 104th FW lately? They are deployed; a
> co-worker is in the 104th and he has been deployed for a couple
> weeks....I just don't know where and wondering? Any assistance in
> finding them would be greatly appreciated...
>
> Bob
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