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Super Garuda Shield Exercises One of the Largest Ever

Our Bureau - : Nov 1, 2022 - : 8:54 pm

The bilateral Garuda Shield training event between the Indonesian Army and the U.S. Army grew into this year’s “Super Garuda Shield” exercises, which emerged as one of the biggest joint, multinational exercises in the Indo-Pacific region. The recently concluded exercises, featured the banners of 14 nations. Super Garuda Shield 2022 featured several “firsts,” including the first ever tri-lateral airborne jump among the United States, Indonesia, and Japan, which concluded early today. The multinational exercise’s planning, operations, exchanges, and activities increase all participating nations’ military defense capabilities and work to maintain a free and open Indo-Pacific. “When we’re together like this, we are stronger,” said Commanding General of the U.S. Army Pacific, General Charles Flynn. “Together as a multinational force, Garuda Shield is an important expression of our teamwork, our interoperability and our unity as a group of nations that seek to have a free and open Indo-Pacific and maintain a rules-based order.”

More than 4,000 combined forces personnel, including first time participants Australia, Singapore, and Japan Ground Self Defense Force, are participating in support of the exercise. Other participating nations include Canada, France, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea, Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste, and the United Kingdom. Maj. Gen. Stephen G. Smith, Commanding General, 7th Infantry Division and exercise director for Super Garuda Shield 2022 said, “This Indonesian-led exercise has grown in scope and scale. Every time we can build our joint readiness is a great opportunity for us and the region,” said Smith. “The growth of this exercise shows its importance and how these nations view this as a consequential area within the Indo-Pacific region. ”Over the duration of the exercise, Super Garuda Shield featured an amphibious exercise, maritime security training, military operations in an urban terrain training, an air defense exercise, airborne operations, and an airfield seizure exercise.

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