Fact Sheet: 2nd ASEAN Militaries' Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Exercise

The 2nd ASEAN Militaries' Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) Exercise (AHX) is co-hosted by Singapore and Brunei. This exercise will be held in Brunei on 16 June 2013 and attended by all ASEAN militaries.

The 2nd AHX aims to build on the success of the inaugural AHX co-hosted by Singapore and Indonesia in July 2011 by promoting the familiarisation of HADR management mechanism across all ASEAN nations. This will be done through the conduct of professional sharing by the ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance (AHA Centre) and ASEAN countries, as well as a scenario-based Table-Top Exercise (TTX). Overall, more than 70 personnel from the ASEAN militaries and AHA Centre will be participating in the exercise.

The 2nd AHX will be opened by Royal Brunei Armed Forces Joint Force Commander First Admiral Dato Seri Pahlawan Abdul Aziz bin Haji Abdul Mohammad Tami and Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Director Joint Operations Brigadier-General Ngien Hoon Ping. The exercise will be closed by Commander of Royal Brunei Armed Forces (RBAF) MG Dato Paduka Seri Haji Aminuddin Ihsan bin Pehin Orang Kaya Saiful Mulok Dato Seri Paduka Haji Abidin and Chief of Defence Force of the SAF Major-General (MG) Ng Chee Meng..

The 2nd AHX will be held back-to-back with the ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting (ADMM) HADR / Military Medicine Exercise, to be conducted also in Brunei from 17 to 20 June 2013.