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Arctic Edge 2026

Artic Edge 26
VMR-1 and 2/14 HIRAIN
The Arctic

 

ABOUT 

AE26 is a North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) Tier 2 Joint Field Training Exercise (FTX) in the Alaska Theater of Operations (AKTO). AE26 will also include USNORTHCOM activities in Greenland, focusing on joint and combined homeland defense readiness and operations in the Arctic region. AE26 is aligned with Large Scale Global Exercise 26 (LSGE26), a globally integrated joint force FTX with defense partners and interagency organizations intended to shape the strategic operating environment, promote global integration and integrated deterrence, and mitigate strategic risk.



Media Contact Information

Name:      First Lieutenant Quiarra Barros
Address:  2000 Opelousas Ave, New Orleans, LA 70114
Phone:     (504) 697-9339
eMail:       mfrcommstrat@usmc.mil

 

 

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Marine Corps Reserve Maj. John Fitzsimmons (center), commanding officer of Company G, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, leads a patrol of Marines in an urban training facility aboard here July 19, 2008. Fitzsimmons deployed to Iraq’s western Al Anbar Province with his company from the fall of 2008, conducting counterinsurgency operations in and around the rural town of Akashat. In his civilian career, Fitzsimmons is a commercial real estate property manager for an international company based in New York City.

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