Prior to commencement of the LIVEX phase of Exercise TRIDENT JUNCTURE 2018 (TRJE18) the NATO Alliance and Partners nations today laid on a Distinguished Visitors Day, writes Bob Morrison.
This spectacular event, which was a miniature version of the South (Blue) Forces amphibious landing scheduled for later this week, involved the full gambit of Air, Land and Sea assets ranging from combat fixed and rotary wing aircraft, Marines and armour and amphibious ships and landing craft. Almost every NATO member nation plus Finland and Sweden contributed personnel and materiel to the display, which lasted almost exactly an hour.

A multinational platoon of French and Royal Marines assaulting an enemy-held objective near the beachhead [© BM]
Around dawn tomorrow, 31st October, all troops should be in position in the exercise box and D-Day will be officially declared with battle commencing well south and east of today’s action. Watch this space for updates as and when there is a lull in the action over the next eight days.
{ images © Bob Morrison }