Keywords: NewsPhoto 1998-05 980512-N-5636A-006.jpg Sailors and Marines guide a tanker trailer as it is lowered over the side of the SS Gopher State TACS 4 to a lighter craft in Sattahip Thailand on May 12 1998 for use in Exercise Cobra Gold '98 Cobra Gold '98 is the latest in a continuing series of U S -Thai military exercises designed to ensure regional peace and strengthen the ability of the Royal Thai Armed Forces to defend Thailand The training includes joint combined air land and sea operations Cobra Gold is the largest strategic mobility exercise involving the U S Pacific Command forces this year http //www defenselink mil/photos/NewsPhoto aspx NewsPhotoID 1341 1998-05-12 DoD photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Dolores L Anglin U S Navy PD-USGov-Military-Navy loading freight alongside Cobra Gold 1998 SS Gopher State T-ACS-4 Images from US Navy location Sattahip Thailand Sattahip Bay |