02 November 2012

News Story: India, US to hold joint military exercise at Fort Bragg in 2013


WASHINGTON (PTI): As many as 400 Indian Army soldiers would arrive at Fort Bragg home to airborne and special operations forces in the United States next year, to hold a joint annual military exercise.

The fort-night long "Yudh Abhyas" from May 3 to 17 is an exchange of combat units between the two countries with each of them hosting it every alternate year.

Some 400 American soldiers would attend the joint exercise.

The purpose of the exercise will be bilateral operations, the exchange of ideas and developing the ability to work side by side, Lt Gen Francis J Wiercinski, the commanding general of US Army Pacific in Hawaii, told The Fayetteville Observer in a recent interview.

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