{"id":7034,"date":"2013-07-12T04:03:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T04:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7034"},"modified":"2013-07-12T04:05:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T04:05:16","slug":"south-africa-usa-in-joint-military-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7034","title":{"rendered":"South Africa, USA in joint military exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US defence and Army attach\u00e9 Colonel Daniel L Hampton (right) with Major General Luvuyo Nobanda of the SANDF<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The South African and US armed forces will conduct a joint exercise in the Eastern Cape, the SA National Defence Force said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

SA Navy Captain Jaco Theunissen said the militaries would share technical expertise during the exercise, which would start on July 24 and end on August 5, and would involve 5000 soldiers.<\/p>\n

“We are exercising to do a human support intervention in an unstable country,” said Theunissen.<\/p>\n

“What we simulate is what is currently happening in a lot of countries in the world, especially in the African continent.<\/p>\n

“You’ve got warring factions destabilising the country…. We are exercising the war fight, where you will fight against rebel groups.”<\/p>\n

Medical units would also practice giving basic medical healthcare to a local population in an unstable warring environment.<\/p>\n

All branches of the SANDF — the army, air force, navy, and health –would participate. – Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The South African and US armed forces will conduct a joint exercise in the Eastern Cape, the SA National Defence Force said on Thursday. SA Navy Captain Jaco Theunissen said the militaries would share technical expertise during the exercise, which would start on July 24 and end on August 5, and would involve 5000 soldiers. … Continue reading “South Africa, USA in joint military exercise”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10],"tags":[610,3885,3068,3884,3886],"class_list":["post-7034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","category-united-states","tag-eastern-cape","tag-joint-military-exercise","tag-south-african-national-defence-force","tag-us-army","tag-war-games"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Hampton_Nobanda_400x300.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7034"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7037,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7034\/revisions\/7037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}