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direction of the Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic, the Supreme Allied
NORTHERN MERGER Commander, Europe, and the Commander-in-Chief Channel.
was a large-scale exercise to which all available naval and air
forces were committed. Like DAWN PATROL it included an amphibious
landing.
50. The Army and the Royal Air Force took part in the NATO
exercise, BOLD GUARD, in Schleswig-Holstein in which the United
Kingdom Joint Airborne Task Force and a brigade group of the "nited
Kingdom Mobile Force, together with a Jaguar squadron, were deployed
in support of Allied Command Europe. Army units have supported NATO
exercises in Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Norway
and the United States. The United Kingdom contribution of both
land and air elements to the Allied Command Europe Mobile Force
exercised twice with the Force in 1974, once in Norway and once in
Belgium; they also carried out their annual period of Arctic
training in Norway. In 1975 it is planned that they should exercise
three times with the Force.
51.
Exercise COLD FIRE in June 1974 exercised the NATO Tactical
Air Forces and the air support organisation of the Central Region,
and involved wide-scale participation by RAF Germany and BAO?.
Other Exercises
52. The Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force have also continued to
support a variety of other NATO exercises, including those concerned
with mine countermeasures and defence against fast patrol boats.
Royal Navy submarines have contributed to NATO maritime
exercises of all kinds. In addition, there has been a full
programme of national maritime exercises, in certain of which the
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