Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 31, 2006 18:37:53 GMT 12
The RNZAF is to exercise with the Yanks again!
From:
www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3617970a6160,00.html
NZ to take part in exercise with US
28 March 2006
By HANK SCHOUTEN
For the second time in as many years New Zealand is being allowed to take part in a major military exercise with the United States.
An Air Force Boeing 757 will fly to Darwin next week to take part in Exercise Pacific Protector 2006.
It is a multinational Proliferation Security Initiative exercise designed to test how well the military and customs agencies in several countries can work together to detect and intercept planes carrying weapons of mass destruction. It is understood that for the purpose of the exercise the 757 will be the aircraft carrying a suspicious cargo.
Australian FA-18 fighters will also be involved in the exercise, supported by a US air force refuelling plane and staff from the US Homeland Security Department. Japan, Singapore and Britain will be sending customs and police personnel.
Defence Minister Phil Goff said New Zealand's participation in the exercise did not represent a change in the US policy that bars New Zealand participation in joint exercises. When a similar exercise was held near Singapore last year, the US issued a waiver to permit its military to exercise with the New Zealand force.
Asked if another waiver had been issued, US ambassador Bill McCormick said: "We welcome New Zealand's participation in this global, multinational initiative. . . the US Government maintains flexible policies that are adjustable to the demands of our national security interests."
Mr Goff said the exercise was an important multinational initiative to foster co-operation to counter the trafficking of weapons of mass destruction.
From:
www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3617970a6160,00.html
NZ to take part in exercise with US
28 March 2006
By HANK SCHOUTEN
For the second time in as many years New Zealand is being allowed to take part in a major military exercise with the United States.
An Air Force Boeing 757 will fly to Darwin next week to take part in Exercise Pacific Protector 2006.
It is a multinational Proliferation Security Initiative exercise designed to test how well the military and customs agencies in several countries can work together to detect and intercept planes carrying weapons of mass destruction. It is understood that for the purpose of the exercise the 757 will be the aircraft carrying a suspicious cargo.
Australian FA-18 fighters will also be involved in the exercise, supported by a US air force refuelling plane and staff from the US Homeland Security Department. Japan, Singapore and Britain will be sending customs and police personnel.
Defence Minister Phil Goff said New Zealand's participation in the exercise did not represent a change in the US policy that bars New Zealand participation in joint exercises. When a similar exercise was held near Singapore last year, the US issued a waiver to permit its military to exercise with the New Zealand force.
Asked if another waiver had been issued, US ambassador Bill McCormick said: "We welcome New Zealand's participation in this global, multinational initiative. . . the US Government maintains flexible policies that are adjustable to the demands of our national security interests."
Mr Goff said the exercise was an important multinational initiative to foster co-operation to counter the trafficking of weapons of mass destruction.
