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Video by Sgt. Eric Kestner

PACIFIC FORTITUDE - Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise (Army version)

8th Army

Aug. 16, 2024 | 6:03

U.S. Army Soldiers with the 1st Armored Division, participate in an emergency readiness exercise that tests their rapid deployment capabilities at Fort Bliss, Texas to South Korea, July - August, 2024. The unit is participating in a deployment readiness exercise in support of Pacific Fortitude, which supports long-standing agreements to the Republic of Korea by deploying forces, drawing and transporting equipment to validate unit readiness and the U.S. commitment to the alliance. The rapid deployment exercise is a standard, routine readiness validation where a U.S. Army unit is tested on its ability to rapidly deploy personnel successfully to a given environment, conduct training and redeploy back to their home station. This exercise also tests the swift deployment and decisive utilization of vehicles and equipment already present on the Korean peninsula. Army Prepositioned Stock-4 or APS-4 are strategically placed caches of warfighting equipment in Korea and Japan that serve as a critical component of the U.S. Army’s ability to rapidly project combat power throughout the INDO-PACIFIC. (U.S. Army video by Sgt. Eric Kestner)

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