AMERICANALMANAC (Melissa Gentry) - Greece and Egypt stage massive military drills on Crete beach — with sunbathing tourists watching from the sand
Five allied nations wrapped up the annual Medusa military exercise on a public beach outside Chania, Crete, complete with drone strikes, marine landings, and jets roaring overhead, while vacationers in swimsuits looked on from behind a police cordon. Greek and Egyptian forces led the hourlong finale on Friday, sending marines and special forces operators sprinting […] The post Greece and Egypt stage massive military drills on Crete beach — with sunbathing tourists watching from the sand appeared first on American Almanac .
Five allied nations wrapped up the annual Medusa military exercise on a public beach outside Chania, Crete, complete with drone strikes, marine landings, and jets roaring overhead, while vacationers in swimsuits looked on from behind a police cordon. Greek and Egyptian forces led the hourlong finale on Friday, sending marines and special forces operators sprinting through plumes of colored smoke onto a strip of coastline near the village of Maleme. Fast boats roared ashore. Helicopters banked low. Simulated fire crackled across the waterline. And a few hundred feet away, tourists clutched their phones and tried to figure out what, exactly, they had stumbled into. The exercise, which began September 10, drew military units from France,…Open