Hawaii's JPMRC 27-01 Moves Toward a Maritime Air Assault: About 300 Paratroopers Complete a 3,000-Mile Airborne Insertion as the 25th Infantry Division Shifts to a Multi-Battalion Ground Fight
Operations across the Hawaiian archipelago are rapidly escalating as the Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center (JPMRC) Rotation 27-01 pushes thousands of U.S. and multinational forces to their physical and tactical limits, the U.S. Army said in a report published on November 8. Military members from the Republic of Korea, Singapore, France, New Zealand, Japan, and the Maldives are taking part alongside U.S. forces.
Following the 11th Airborne Division's successful 3,000-mile airborne insertion of approximately 300 paratroopers from Alaska to the Island of Hawai?i, the 25th Infantry Division and its partners have now transitioned into a multi-battalion ground fight, the Army said. With the drop zones secured, forces are moving under the cover of darkness and strict electronic emission control to set the conditions for the next major operational milestone: a Long-Range Maritime Air Assault (LRMAA) scheduled later in the exercise.
"This exercise demonstrates our ability to rapidly marshal and deploy from two separate intermediate staging bases on two separate continents," said Lt. Col. Jo Nederhoed, director of public affairs for the 11th Airborne Division. Maj. Gen. Jeff VanAntwerp, Commanding General of the 25th Infantry Division, said the division is one of two next-generation command-and-control enabled divisions, with a cloud-based architecture that pushes computing capacity from brigades down to the company level.
Aviation and sustainment elements are managing distributed arming and refueling nodes across the island chain. Operating in the background of JPMRC is the Lightning Surge 6 exercise, which continues to validate the division's modernized, resilient communication networks, using tactical mesh radios and a secure data layer. According to the Army, Republic of Korea Army reconnaissance teams infiltrated the Big Island via New Zealand aircraft the previous day, observing the drop zones and setting the stage for the air assaults to follow. As the sun sets, the focus shifts to the elements executing the LRMAA, with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade inserting elements of the 2nd Mobile Brigade deep into contested terrain.
The Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center is U.S. Army Pacific's premier regional Combat Training Center, operating across the Hawaiian Islands, Alaska, and exportable locations throughout the Indo-Pacific. The 25th Infantry Division, "Tropic Lightning," is headquartered at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.
Source: U.S. Army
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Photo: 图：第25步兵师士兵在夏威夷斯科菲尔德兵营参加演练（资料图）。美国陆军官方照片，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Soldiers of the 25th Infantry Division during an exercise at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii (file photo). U.S. Army photo, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
