“This exercise aims to enhance our unit’s operational capability in joint maritime security operations, and improvement of areas of inter-operability and other joint training opportunities between the Navy and Air Force and it will also test and improve on the inter-operability of our new equipment, ships and aircraft and especially among our personnel,” he pointed out.
The drill started in 2003 during the term of then-Navy Capt. Jose Luis Alano, with the Naval Air Group and 15th Strike Wing as the only participating units involved.