About Griffin Shock

 
 
 
Griffin Shock is an exercise designed to prepare V Corps and NATO Multinational Corps Northeast with the rapid expansion of NATO Multinational Battlegroup Poland in support of NATO deterrence initiatives such as bolstering readiness, responsiveness, and reinforcement. 

 

Griffin Shock is a combined NATO and U.S. Army short notice exercise that will demonstrate the U.S. Army’s ability to enhance the NATO alliance by rapidly reinforcing the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) Battlegroup in Poland to a brigade size Land Forces Brigade.

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Video by Staff Sgt. Caleb Roland
U.S. Air Force KC-135 refuels two U.S. Marine F/A-18s
4th Combat Camera Squadron
Feb. 10, 2025 | 1:29
A U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18C Hornet and an F/A-18D Hornet assigned to the Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 312, Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina conduct an aerial refuel with a U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker assigned to the 72nd Air Refueling Squadron, Grissom Joint Air Reserve Base, Indiana above the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command area of responsibility as part of exercise Cope North 2025, Feb. 11, 2025. CN25 is an annual Pacific Air Forces Field Training Exercise designed to foster and enhance interoperability between PACAF, United States Marine Corps, the Royal Australian Air Forces and the Japan Air Self-Defense Force to ensure a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Air Force video by Staff Sgt. Caleb Roland)
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