Naval Special Warfare members perform a high-altitude low-opening jump over the Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Pasadena (SSN 752) in ICEX, which happened concurrently with the 2022 Arctic Edge Exercise. Arctic Edge is a U.S. Northern Command biennial defense exercise designed to demonstrate and exercise the ability to rapidly deploy and operate in the Arctic. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Trey Hutcheson)
power to many people here, sandra. sandra: benjamin hall reporting, thank you, we ll see you again shortly. john: across the potomac river to the pentagon, where john kirby is speaking to reporters. locations throughout alaska, arctic edge 22 is linked to other service specific exercises, including the national guard arctic eagle patriot, the army s joint pacific multi-national readiness capability exercise and the ice x and those concurrently or consecutively during the months of february and march of this year. with that, take questions. l i don t know, can you give us more detail on the hotline with russia, do you know if it has been used at all? was it used specifically during the attack on the nuclear facility when one might think there might be some cause for
syria. i ve been in aleppo and saw what they did in terms of extreme destruction all across that city. and the scenes that we re seeing now are resembling that. and what russia has done before in places like chechnya. i m thinking about a area just northwest of kyiv called bora bianca and we have just extraordinary video from there. again, residential area, residential buildings, big blocks of apartment buildings that have been torn apart by russian alex, i have to interrupt you. we re go fog co we re going t back to you. john kirby is giving an update. let s listen. northern command is hosting arctic edge in alaska. held every two years. this consists of 1,000 u.s. military personnel and made up from the army, navy, coast guard and command and are elements
from the royal canadian navy and the air force and the canadian army. the goal of the exercise is to provide effective training for apartments using the premier training location that s are available throughout alaska. arctic edge 22 is linked to other service specific exercises and including the national guard s arctic eagle patriot, the army s joint pacific multi-national readiness exercise and an 80s ice ex and those occur consecutively during february and march of this year. with that, we ll take questions. john, can you give us a little bit more detail on the hotline, deconfliction line, whatever you want to call it from russia, do you know if it has been used at all. was it used during the attack on the nuclear facility when one might think there might be cause for concern.