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Netherlands Maritime Forces Conduct Amphibious Landing Training

Natochannel

Oct. 24, 2015 | 5:14

The Royal Netherlands Navy is preparing for participation in the NATO Response Force (NRF) by conducting amphibious landing training off the coast of Spain as part of Exercise Trident Juncture 2015.

The Netherlands is commanding an amphibious task force during the exercise, consisting of a maritime staff aboard the Dutch amphibious transport HNLMS Johan De Witt The Netherlands’ 1300 participants include an Amphibious Task Group (ATG) consisting of Navy, Army and Air Force units.

During the exercise, the Dutch amphibious staff, led by Commander Rob Kramer, and the Marine Corps are being trained to operate on the border between land and water in a complex scenario. Units of the Marines are put ashore from the sea, backed by naval vessels, landing craft and helicopters. With this training, the Royal Netherlands Navy and its NATO partners are becoming well attuned to one another and can thus better align certain procedures.

Date Shot: 2015-10-23
Location: Sierra del Retín, Spain
Language: ENGLISH
Duration: 05 minutes 14 seconds
Journalist: Lucas Daniel

Shotlist
00:00:00:26
ESTABLISHING SHOTS OF TRAINING CAMP SIERRA DE RETÍN AND THE AMPHIBIOUS TRANSPORT SHIP HNLMS JOHAN DE WITT

00:26:01:05
VARIOUS SHOTS OF AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLE LEAVING HNLMS JOHAN DE WITT

01:05:01:45
VARIOUS SHOTS OF THE DUTCH AMPHIBIOUS TASK FORCE ON ITS WAY TO THE BEACH

01:45:02:41
VARIOUS SHOTS OF DUTCH AMPHIBIOUS TASK FORCE REACHING THE LANDING BEACH

02:41:03:31
VARIOUS SHOTS OF THE DUTCH AMPHIBIOUS TASK FORCE DISEMBARKING
03:31:03:44
LONG CLOSING SHOT WITH HNLMS JOHAN DE WITT IN THE SUNSET

03:44:04:30
SOUNDBITE (English) Captain René Luyckx, Commanding Officer HNLMS (His/Her Netherlands Majesty’s Ship) Johan de Witt stands on the bridge of the HNLMS JOHAN DE WITT, “ In Amphibious landings we have to take in consideration multiple things like the weather. If the weather is unsuitable we are not able to put boats on the beach but also we need to know if it’s safe to enter to the beach, so if there are no rocks underneath the water. So we train if the beach is suitable, if we could actually land our vehicles. If we can connect with the landing forces ashore and we do survey of the area and we need to know if we are on the neighbourhood of the target where the landing forces need to do their deployment.”

04:30:05:14
SOUNDBITE (English) Commodore R.A. Kramer, Commander Netherlands Maritime Force, “ For NATO this is a connected forces initiative exercise, which means that we have Army, Air Force and Navy all together in one exercise. Trident Juncture is also important for the NATO RESPONSE FORCE 2016 because all the units that are participating and the staff that is participating will be part of the NRF 16 (NATO RESPONSE FORCE). We are living in a very dynamic world, a world that is less secure that it used to be, therefore is very important, specially at this moment, that we prepared ourselves well. So this is the moment. Now we’ve got to train. ”

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