Japan Stripes — Commander, U.S. Seventh Fleet ships, U.S. Air Force and Army assets, and units from the Japan Maritime and Air Self-Defense Forces, completed Resilient Shield 2019, March 1.
Resilient Shield is an annual computer-based Fleet Synthetic Training-Joint (FST-J) exercise held within the Commander, U.S. 7th Fleet area of Operations (AOO) and other command centers throughout the region.
Resilient Shield strengthens interoperability by enhancing joint multi-lateral operations between the U.S. and Japan Forces, by allowing them to focus on synthetic ballistic missile defense exercises.
“This exercise enables Japanese and U.S. Naval vessels to enter into synthetic operational situations using the naval continuous training environment” said Capt. Michael Smith, 7th Fleet Air Defense Officer.
