I tried the usual government contact jobs after taking a full week of retired life. I found out that it is true - tigers do eat their young and went back to doing what I enjoyed most - helping people. I started work with MWR. It's not exactly the same, but it feels good to be a help to the Sailors and Marines. It also keeps me off the streets making the city safe. Now if I can just figure out how to stay ahead of the cost of living out here. That's my never ending challenge.
Training Exercise - Cobra Gold '88
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Description Cobra Gold is an Asia-Pacific military exercise held in Thailand every year. It is the largest Asia-Pacific military exercise held each year, and is among the largest multinational military exercise in which the United States participates.
Cobra Gold was first held in 1982. It served as military training exercise to improve coordination between the armed forces of the United States and Thailand in both hostile military and humanitarian efforts. It also had the goal of strengthening ties between the U.S. and Thailand, the oldest ally of the United States in the South Asia region. More recently, Cobra Gold has served a humanitarian mission, as military personnel deliver health care to the local Thai population, and as a testing ground for new battlefield technologies such as solar powered weaponry.
The United States has engaged in only a single, very minor military intervention in the Pacific area since the end of the Vietnam War, making it difficult to judge Cobra Gold's effectiveness in improving warfighting capabilities and coordination. Cobra Gold has, however, proven effective in improving coordinated military response to natural disasters.
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