Cope Thunder to help pilots hone war skills

Cope Thunder to help pilots hone war skills

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{EXCERPT}, by Vince Little, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Friday,
July 16, 2004

Officials plan to launch Cooperative Cope Thunder this week, the Air
Force’s largest multilateral air-combat exercise in the Pacific.

The annual drill, which was to begin Thursday and will run through
July 30, is being staged at Eielson and Elmendorf Air Force bases in
Alaska.

Singapore, Germany, the United Kingdom, Mongolia, Canada, Malaysia,
Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Australia are among the nations signed up to
take part this year.

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force, also headed to the exercise, is
deploying F-15s to the United States for just the second time, said
Maj. Eric Hilliard, a 5th Air Force spokesman. The Indian air force is
sending its fighter aircraft to American soil for the first time, he
added. That country is set to operate out of Eielson.

About 210 servicemembers from Kadena Air Base, Okin...

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