The military police are conducting exercises in northern Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate: 850 female and male soldiers of the Feldjäger Regiment 3 from Munich will participate from April 20 to 30 in the live, full-scale exercise Orange Road 2026. The exercise area is bounded by the locations Bruchsal, Speyer, Heidelberg, Mannheim, Karlsruhe and Kehl in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. Forces from the police as well as civilian authorities and aid organizations will also participate in the exercise.
The Feldjäger are the military police of the Bundeswehr. They contribute to increasing the readiness of the armed forces through their support services. Thus, with Orange Road 2026, the cooperation between the Feldjäger and units of the other service branches and organizational areas of the Bundeswehr as well as civilian security organizations will be practiced in a scenario of territorial and alliance defense.
Orange Road trains the Military Police Task Force of Division 25
Key exercise priorities include the establishment and operation of a traffic control network in the rear division area, participation in a river crossing organization on the Rhine in coordination with engineer forces, the protection of critical infrastructure in the vicinity of a fuel depot, and the deployment of drones.
“The overarching goal of Orange Road 2026 is to consistently align the regiment’s training and leadership testing with the NATO requirements for the Military Police Task Force of Division 25,” says the commander of Feldjäger Regiment 3, Colonel Marco Langhorst, and continues: “We aim to provide permanently ready, resilient, and autonomously effective military police forces in the extended operations area.”
