 RIM of the Pacific is the world's largest maritime exercise, but it was a multinational team of ground troops who added the exclamation point at the end RIMPAC 2012 concluded in dramatic fashion demonstrating the interoperability of more than 2,200 personnel from nine different countries Starting aboard the USS Essex some of the force made its way ashore in amphibious assault vehicles Some flew in by helicopter Eventually they all were moving downrange to engage their targets It's a very complex Thing to come from the sea and do whatever mission you've been assigned Everybody's come together very well to include our interaction with the US Navy And we really need that platform to be able to project power ashore like you saw this morning The exercise demonstrated the land forces abilities to conduct amphibious operations Like to learn lessons in peacetime before you need them in a crisis and that's exactly what we've done out here this last month You know, we're not going to do anything unilaterally. So everything that we do out in the future We're going to do with our coalition partner and our allies for exercise RIM of the Pacific. I'm Corporal Ben Eberle