Exercise Trident is a standard naval estimate writing assignment under real time scenario in the light of adversary’s effort to destabilize development goals of Sri Lanka whilst instilling fear psychosis among general public by means of hostilities/ terror attack. Exercise Trident is an individual exercise for naval Student Officers and evaluated as a Red Ink Correction (RIC). During this exercise, Student Officers will act as members of operational staff under real time scenarios. This exercise will enhance the Student Officers’ ability of logical thinking and perceiving realistic threats while developing enemy course of action and identifying the best own course of action. Further, it will inculcate the importance in operational planning and decision-making process practiced in Sri Lanka Navy; the naval estimate process.

In this endeavour, the exercise was conducted from 01^st to 05^th September 2022 at Naval Dockyard, Trincomalee and Student Officers had the opportunity to gain valuable experience through briefings of Command Staff and by visiting Naval Dockyard premises followed by harbour recce cruise. Student Officers successfully completed the exercise augmenting their knowledge on application of naval estimate planning process in a real time scenario.

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