military exercise cobra gold is held between thailand and which country
Cobra Gold In 2017, there were 29 nations that participated in Cobra Gold either directly or as observers. This year is 36th anniversary of Cobra Gold exercise co-hosted by Thailand and United States between 14 and 24 of February 2017.[7] Cobra Gold 2017 aims to improve capabilities among the participating nations, joint operation, civic action [8] and do build up relationship between Thailand and United States when power seizure in 2014 Thai-US relations have fallen. Cobra Gold 2017 aims to improve capabilities among the participating nations, joint operation, civic action [9] The field exercises including variety of training, such as Amphibious Assault Demonstration,[10] EOD mission, Close Air Support (CAS)[11] and Combined Arms Live Fire Exercise (CALFEX) which is an exercise on strategical engagement by using various types of weapons.[12] In civic action, were included humanitarian assistance and Non-combatant Evacuation Operation (NEO). NEO was led by Japan Air Self Defense Force (JASDF) [10] during disaster relief operation. Mostly, a NEO used to move noncombatant personnel from dangerous area, usually caused by natural disaster [13]