Cobra Gold is an exercise that is going on its 27th year. I was lucky to be part of the exercise and I enjoyed every aspect of the operations. I also had a chance to work with some of Thailand's finest citizens. The interpretors bridged the gap between the U.S. Military and Thai Armed forces and local citizens.
Here is a brief history of how Cobra Gold began...
In 1982, the Royal Thai Armed Forces and the U.S. Armed Forces initiated joint training, under the name of Exercise COBRA GOLD. At that time, the Royal Thai Navy was conducting naval, air and landing exercise with the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. These included: PHIBTRAEX, SEAIAM, UNDERSEAL, and EODEX exercises under the name Cobra Gold 1982 and continued until 1985.
In 1986, the Supreme Command Headquarters took responsibility for Exercise COBRA GOLD, and has continued the exercise annually. All Royal Thai Armed Forces have now joined the exercise, and it is rotated annually to each of the Royal Thai Army Areas.
Prior to 2004, the joint training was only between the Royal Thai Armed Forces, U.S. Armed Forces, and Singaporean Armed Forces. In 2004 the Philippine Armed Forces and Mongolian Armed Forces were added to the exercise which emphasized peace operations instead of war operations.
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