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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Video by Lance Cpl. Joseph DeMarcus, Lance Cpl. Andra Marton-Salgado
Marine Minute: 15.2-25 (AFN VERSION)
Defense Media Activity - Marines
April 18, 2025 | 1:08
U.S. Marines with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 122 participate in exercise Bamboo Eagle at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Yuma, Arizona, Aug. 9, 2024. Bamboo Eagle is a live-fly exercise designed to create a combat-representative environment to evaluate a wing commander’s ability to generate combat air power while continuing to move, maneuver and sustain the expeditionary airbase (XAB) and subordinate force elements in a dynamic environment. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Joseph E. DeMarcus)
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