Marchwood: Army vehicles shipped to Romania for Nato exercise
The UK’s 1st Division will be in command of all of Nato’s land forces in the exercise.
Speaking at Marchwood, Colonel Jim Beere, deputy chief of staff of 1st (UK) Div) which is commanding the land component, said: “This is significant for the UK, as this is the first ever time the Allied Reaction Force has deployed and the UK is providing the land component command which means we are providing the army – or land – component to that.”
He explained that Nato vehicles and troops will be travelling by different methods for the 1,429 mile (2,300km) journey to and from Romania, by sea, land and rail, to test Nato’s ability to deploy under pressure.
The aim of the exercise, is to practice a major deployment of land, sea and air forces across Europe.
The troops will conduct two exercises before returning to the UK at the end of February.
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