Knobhead has announced the first of what should be a regular schedule of smaller exercises and training operations which is being funded by the recent increase in funds to the fleet. He also announced that these smaller operations will follow a new naming convention where the month the operation starts in comes first followed by a code name. Only the annual exercises Atomic Fist and Ground Shock will be exempt from this new convention.
Operation June Fade will be a minesweeping and co-operation with the Porquatians exercise. The new MCM ships will perform a series of exercises with the Porquatians acting as escorts and later as the "enemy". The exercise is expected to last around 3 weeks, extra ships may join for the later stages. The ships that will take part are:
F109 Oligocene (flag and MCM director)
M113 Xerxes
X114 Paris
X115 Hector
A153 Butane
+ 3 Porquatian ships
