Thousands of U.S. Marines at the biennial Rim of the Pacific, or “RIMPAC,” exercises in Hawaii and southern California are passing on hard-earned lessons to partner nation troops on the most complex of military maneuvers — the amphibious landing.
“We’ve really been stressing that this is a two-way street” in working with troops from Canada, Mexico, Chile, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Zealand, Tonga and others in and off Hawaii and California, said Marine Brig. Gen. Raymond Descheneaux, commander of Fleet Marine forces for the exercise known in Pentagon parlance as RIMPAC 16.
“We start with completely integrating those [partner] forces, making sure they’re embedded from start to finish in everything we’re doing from command and control down to the most junior members of the team,” Descheneaux said in an interview from Hawaii last week…”
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