Royal Marine and French Marine Landing Craft Working Together

Picture shows a Royal Marine Landing Craft Utility (LCU) conducting cross decking drills with the French Marines with a French landing craft in the background.

HMS Bulwark was taking part in Cougar, a three month deployment to the Mediterranean as part of the United Kingdom's Response Force Task Group, exercising with key allies.

Exercisesl included Corsican Lion, which will test the maritime element of the UK-French Combined Joined Expeditionary Force (CJEF), and exercise Albanian Lion which provided superb faculties for the Lead Commando Group to train with Albanian forces, consolidating the UK and Albania relationship.

Photographer: LA(Phot) Joel Rouse