A closing ceremony aboard the U.S. Navy’s Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship USS Comstock (LSD 45) is scheduled to take place in the coming days to officially end the exercise

Metro India News | KAKINADA

Nearly 1,000 U.S. and Indian military personnel took part in a large-scale amphibious landing drill on Kakinada Beach in Andhra Pradesh, India, on Friday. The event represented a humanitarian assistance and disaster response scenario in which the joint combined forces were tasked with securing space in a coastal area, as well as setting up a field hospital and supply distribution site there following a notional natural disaster. 

In a statement, the U.S. Consul General of Hyderabad, Jennifer Larson, said, “Every year this exercise builds on the previous one and breaks new ground,” she said. “Our forces are working closer than ever before, and we see this relationship only getting stronger. A closing ceremony aboard the U.S. Navy’s Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship USS Comstock (LSD 45) is scheduled to take place in the coming days to officially end the exercise. 

Beginning with an opening ceremony aboard Jalashwa on April 1, this is the fourth time U.S. and Indian forces have come together for Tiger Triumph, an annual joint India-U.S. amphibious exercise. Overall, the exercise involved approximately 3,000 personnel and at least four ships and seven aircraft from the two countries. U.S. 7th Fleet is the U.S. Navy's largest forward-deployed numbered fleet and routinely interacts and operates with allies and partners in preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific region.