Overview

• Troops from the 11th Airborne Division and an Indian Army battalion opened the two-week exercise with a ceremony at Fort Wainwright on Sept. 2.
• Training runs Sept. 1–14 across Fort Wainwright, the Yukon Training Area and Donnelly Training Area, with an emphasis on interoperability and readiness.
• Participating units include the U.S. 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment “Bobcats” and Indian soldiers from a battalion of the Madras Regiment.
• Planned scenarios cover heliborne and mountain warfare, UAS and counter‑UAS, electronic warfare, casualty evacuation, and live‑fire and high‑altitude manoeuvres aligned to UN peacekeeping.
• Subject‑matter experts are holding working groups on information warfare, communications and logistics as staffs link a brigade‑level command‑post exercise with field training.