Video transcripts: Exercise Trident Juncture
Updated 25 October 2018
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Exercise Trident Juncture in numbers
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Vehicles travelling 2000 kilometres across northern Europe for Trident Juncture 2018.
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Over 200 Land Rovers.
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125 patrol and reconnaissance vehicles.
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Over 180 SV support vehicles.
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25 battlefield ambulances.
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7 ships.
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4 Hawk fast jets and Sentry.
UK troops deploy to Norway
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We’ve been going now for approximately 2 weeks.
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We had a long drive through England
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and Europe to get to where we are before we could set up.
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We’ve been actively marshalling convoys now
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for approximately 7 days with a break in between.
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The idea is to promote a smooth transition
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through the entire route, working with
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interoperability of different units, not only within the British Army, however within
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the NATO nations themselves.
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Mainly working with, in my experience the
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Danish Military Police and the Danish Home Guard.
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I’m essentially responsible for the coordination of
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the UK deployment, head of exercise Trident Juncture.
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It’s a multi modal deployment where we’re
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using sea, rail, air and road and we’re currently focusing on the road move
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of those UK people and equipment.
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The main challenge of this exercise is ensuring that everybody is happy
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and moving through smoothly.
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Obviously, we’re moving through civilian routes and that has its own challenges in itself,
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just to make sure that the military vehicles themselves are moving at the correct speed,
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and moving along their route to the correct locations.
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What we do in this position is we bring
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the vehicles in, we marshal them through
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at walking speed, to a position where they’ll sleep in for the night.
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We also take them to food to make sure they’re eating,
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they’re rested, and then we line them up in the morning ready to depart.