Thirty hours after departing Alaska, joint paratroopers
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Thirty hours after departing Alaska, joint paratroopers dined on steak and snag (sausage) dinner before the rodeo. The U.S. Army's 1st Battalion (Airborne), 501st Infantry Regiment, from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, and Australian Defence Force 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment Parachute jump masters relaxed at the Great Western Hotel and Steakhouse in Rockhampton after their tactical parachute insertion into Shoalwater Bay Training Area as part of Talisman Sabre 2011. TS11 is an exercise designed to train U.S. and Australian forces to plan and conduct Combined Task Force operations to improve combat readiness and interoperability on a variety of missions from conventional conflict to peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance efforts.
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