Thursday 27 June 2013

Exercise Listening Eagle 13 - Thirty five Royal Marines from Y Squadron (Electronic Warfare and Signals Intelligence) 30 Commando Information Exploitation Group, based at Stonehouse (Plymouth) deployed for most of June (2013) to Fort AP Hill, (Virginia, USA), to take part in Exercise Listening Eagle with Radio Reconnaissance Teams from 2nd Radio Battalion US Marine Corps.     The exercise tested their intelligence gathering, technical reconnaissance and electronic surveys as some of the biggest challenges were faced in the tactical communications to ensure that US and UK teams could share vital intelligence over different radios – but exercises of this nature help iron out these problems.    Fort AP Hill also provided an incredibly challenging training environment which saw the reconnaissance teams operating in 95% humidity in jungle like conditions.    Y Squadron is already planning to reciprocate the training experience next year (2014), potentially expanding the scope and ambition of the exercise.

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