Japanese roll playing
evacuees board a U.S. Marine Corps CH-53 helicopter during an Emergency
Evacuation Exercise in Pattaya.
Rad Mayes
During Cobra Gold 2013, multinational military units from the Royal
Thai Marine Corps, United States Marine Corps and Navy, Japan, Republic
of Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore conducted a five day
Emergency Evacuation Exercise in Pattaya. The exercise was held in the
area near the sports facility on Soi Chaiyapruek 2.
The exercise comprised of instruction in emergency planning,
establishing and operating an emergency evacuation center. Centers like
these would be used to evacuate victims from areas of natural disasters,
political unrest and other emergencies.
The exercise concluded on Sunday with an actual evacuation of roll
playing evacuees. The evacuees were played by staff members and their
families of the Japanese Embassy in Bangkok. U.S. Marine CH-53 and CH-46
helicopters from the USS Bonhomie Richard, LHD-6, arrived and evacuated
the stimulated victims.
A U.S. Marine Corps
CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter prepares to touch down to transport
evacuees of a multinational emergency evacuation drill Feb. 17 in
Pattaya, during exercise Cobra Gold 2013. (130217-M-IM838-056)
PFC Bret Mays from the
Young Marines Pattaya watches a U.S. Marine Corps CH-53 helicopter
departing the Evacuation Center’s Landing Zone.
Evacuees are led to a
U.S. Marine Corps CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter while conducting a
multinational emergency evacuation drill Feb. 17 in Pattaya, during
exercise Cobra Gold 2013. Military members from Thailand, Japan,
Indonesia, and Malaysia worked alongside U.S. Marines and sailors of the
31st Marine Expeditionary Unit to process multinational citizens through
security and screening stations before evacuating them via helicopter.
(130217-M-IM838-096)
