16th Combat Aviation Brigade Prepares for Super Garuda Shield Exercise

05 Agustus 2022

Apache and Black Hawk embarked to Super Garuda Shield Exercise (photos : Garuda Shield)

How did Task Force Tigershark get from Joint Base Lewis-McChord to Super Garuda Shield? Everyone's favorite operation: Port Ops.

The difficult work of preparing an aircraft or piece of rolling stock for transport across the ocean falls on the operators and maintainers of every company participating in this year's exercise.

Starting at the Port of Tacoma prior to the exercise, the Soldiers of the Raptor Brigade transported their equipment to the marshalling area and began preparing to load them into transport vessels that would take them across the Pacific.

 

Upon arrival in Indonesia, many of the same Soldiers began the tough work of unloading and unpacking our equipment in preparation of their onward movement to the training area.

Super Garuda Shield, a part of Operation Pathways and a longstanding annual, bilateral military exercise conducted between the U.S. military and Indonesia National Armed Forces, reinforces the U.S. commitments to our allies, and regional partners, joint readiness, and the interoperability to fight and win together.

(Garuda Shield)