In the largest exercise in the South Pacific in recent years, 1,300 troops from New Zealand, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, and Tonga took part in an exercise portraying an armed intervention by New Caledonian troops in a country involved in a coup.--Stephen V Cole

The South African Air Force had reorganized 16 Squadron to operate the AH-2A Rooivalk attack helicopters. The US and South African Navies held their first joint maneuvers (ever) on 30 Oct - 5 Nov, as two amphibious ships landed troops in Exercise Rampion.--Stephen V Cole