NewsVoice reports from Archipelago Endeavor 23, a joint exercise between the Swedish Second Amphibious Battalion and elements of the USMC II Marine Expeditionary Force. The exercise is also a strategic marker against Russia, says Colonel Adam Camél.

Correction: Adam Camél is a colonel, not a lieutenant colonel as stated in the video.

The exercise is taking place over a ten-day period and consists of bilaterally composed company units practicing to increase the capacity to operate in the Swedish archipelago environment.

The American soldiers say that the combat environment in the Stockholm archipelago is completely different from the environments in the United States in which they normally train. The exercises should therefore familiarize the soldiers with the environment in order to coordinate their combat forces together with Swedish units to offer better resistance to an imagined enemy from the east.

"The Stockholm archipelago is no longer a completely unknown environment for our American colleagues from the USMC and the cooperation is very integrated. One of the new elements this year has been that an American unit has tactically supplied Swedish helicopters with logistics," says Lieutenant Colonel Marcus Appelgren, Exercise Director AE23 and Commander of the Second Amphibious Battalion.

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