IAF and USAF Join Exercise
After it was suspended for several years, join military exercise between the Indonesian Air Force (IAF) and United States Air Force (USAF) was resumed July 19, 2010. Taking place at the Husein Sastranegara Air Force Base and Sulaiman AFB in Bandung, West Java.
Code-name Teak Iron 10-2, the military exercise involved 150 IAF Special Forces and personnel and 110 US. soldiers. Two USAF heavy transport planes, Hercules MC-130H from Special Operations Group 353 based at Kaneda AFB in Japan and one IAF Hercules dropped the Indonesian and American troops during the join parachuting exercise held in Bandung area.
Similar military exercise will be conducted within three years span with Teak Iron 10-2 as its initial exercise in resuming the join IAF and USAF exercises.
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