Each year, Special Operations Forces and personnel from around the world descend on the Gulf Coast to participate in the two week EMERALD WARRIOR exercise.
EMERALD WARRIOR provides pre-deployment air and ground training for special operations forces, emphasizing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; joint close air support; tactical airlift; counterinsurgency; urban operations; civilian casualty avoidance; patterns of life; information operations and language.
Training also includes complex battlefield integration for special operations forces, conventional forces, interagency and non-governmental organizations.
