SA and US troops to play war games in the Cape in Exercise Shared Accord
US troops have begun an invasion of SA for a joint exercise with local soldiers. Two US Air Force C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft have landed at Upington Airport‚ bringing in equipment and personnel for Exercise Shared Accord. The drill begins on Monday at the South African Army Combat Training Centre in Lohatla‚ Northern Cape. Troops involved in 18-day exercise — a company from the US Army’s 101st Airborne Division and a company from 2 SA Infantry Battalion — will conduct a peacekeeping operation under a UN ‘chapter 7’ mandate‚ in which belligerent forces are forced to disengage from armed conflict. South African National Defence Force (SANDF) spokesperson Lt-Col Piet Paxton said movement of troops began on July 3. "The US Army will exercise strategic lifts by means of sea‚ air and road movement and the SANDF will exercise road movement support and replenishment‚" he said. "This mobilisation will be done from various and multiple locations in SA to the Northern Cape, with the a...
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