US, Israel, Turkey to stage military exercises in Mediterranean

JERUSALEM — The United States, Israel and Turkey will launch joint military exercises in the Mediterranean next week, the Israeli army said Tuesday.
The navies and air forces of the three countries will take part in the drills, dubbed "Reliant Mermaid X", from August 17 to 21.
"The objective of this exercise is to practice coordinated emergency search and rescue procedures and measures for safety of life at sea," the Israeli army said in a statement.
Eight ships, four helicopters and three search and rescue aircraft will take part. Hosted by Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean, it is the 10th such exercise in as many years between the allies.

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Where as the timing is interesting, considering the Joint Russian-Iranian exercises going on now.

But seriously, 8 ships and 4 helo's......pffff

Sometimes an apple is just an apple.

The operation is called "Reliant Mermaid X"????

Think this has anything to do with the "mermaid" sightings in israel right now?!

Here is a thread about it.

www.abovetopsecret.com...

Quite a coincidence if not, mermaids are pretty random lol.