'Tiger Triumph' exercise: US Marines to show skills for first time in India

Over the next five days, Indian and American soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen will operate together in a simulated 'humanitarian aid and disaster relief' situation

For decades, elite troops of the United States Marine Corps (USMC) have protected Washington’s Embassy in New Delhi. On Sunday, for the first time ever, the USMC will showcase its professional skills in India, as the joint US-India tri-service exercise “Tiger Triumph” hits the sea at Kakinada, off Visakhapatnam.

Over the next five days, Indian and American soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen will operate together in a simulated “humanitarian aid and disaster relief” (HADR) situation — jointly providing succour to an Indian Ocean country that has been hit by a natural disaster.

But the HADR scenario is only a convenient