USEUCOM to Send 2,500 Personnel to Israel for Missile Defense Exercise

February 23, 2018

Military.com:

Military personnel from U.S. European Command will join members from the Israeli Defense Force in a combined missile-defense exercise next month.

Juniper Cobra 18, which is scheduled to take place March 4-15, has been in the planning stages January 2016. JC18 is the ninth in a series of biennial Juniper Cobra exercises conducted in Israel between the IDF and USEUCOM every two years since 2001, according to a Feb. 22 U.S. European Command press release.

More than 2,500 U.S. personnel will participate in the exercise, with about 2,100 U.S. military members operating alongside IDF personnel at various locations within Israel, according to the release.

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