U.S. Army to Deploy to Israel for Huge Missile Exercise

[Casino67]

American Thinker:

On January 19, 1991, during the first Gulf War, the United States sent Patriot Missiles and a contingent of U.S. service members into Israel on temporary assignment. This was the least we could do for Israel, which vowed not to respond to Saddam's Scud attacks that reached deep inside Tel Aviv. Yet U.S. forces never found a permanent home inside the Holy Land -- until today.

Twenty years later, the United States has committed to a permanent presence in Israel. According to Defense News, as of September 21, 2011, the United States deployed a high-powered, high-frequency, transportable X-band radar system to Israel along with a small contingent of support personnel. Designed to detect and track ballistic missiles soon after launch, the AN/TPY-2 Transportable Radar Surveillance/Forward Based X-band Transportable (FBX-T), its ancillary components, and some 120 EUCOM personnel are prepared to defeat any Iranian missile attack. Today, these service members make home at Israel's Nevatim Air Base.

In an attempt to comfort those who may feel alarmed by this news, rest assured that a U.S. military presence in Israel has been planned for some time now. In fact, since 2007, the U.S. Army solicited contractual opportunities for Nevatim. Solicitation number W912GB-07-R-0013 was released in April 2007, specifically designed for the new construction of two aircraft hangars, hazardous material storage buildings, hangar annex buildings, a dining facility, a utility building, a boom treatment station, part-washing and storage facilities, and a laboratory and workshop building, as well as site development to include roads, parking, taxiways, and landscaping.

[Valin]

I read about this story earlier today...Messages are being sent by this....by both America and Israel.

As far as I know there has never been any large scale exercises with the IDF and American forces.