More than 3,000 sailors and Marines are gearing up for a three-month training deployment to the Mediterranean – this year’s key workout of the UK’s high-readiness task force, Vigilance can reveal.
A source at the MoD said Exercise Cougar would see 12 Royal Naval warships, Royal Marine Commandos and naval airpower. which make up the Response Force Task Group (RFTG), train with French and Albanian counterparts.
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