DEFENDER is the Army’s largest annual opportunity to exercise moving personnel and equipment into theater across modes for initial and follow-on operations critical to Large Scale Combat Operations. Led by U.S. Army Europe and Africa, the exercise focuses on the strategic deployment of CONUS-based forces, employment of Army Prepositioned Stock and follow-on exercises demonstrating lethality and interoperability with Allies and partners

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Crew-served weapons qualifications on USS Spruance
DoD Southern Border 2025
April 18, 2025 | 1:15
PACIFIC OCEAN (March 28, 2025) Sailors from the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance (DDG 111), assigned to Joint Task Force - Southern Border, conduct a crew-served weapons qualifications to maintain proficiency with the M2HB .50-caliber machine gun while underway in the Pacific Ocean, March 28, 2025. U.S. Navy assets are being employed under U.S Northern Command’s maritime homeland defense authorities with a U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment embarked to enable maritime interdiction missions to provide additional military forces and capabilities at the southern border. (U.S. Navy video by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Joey Sitter)
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