This article may contain graphic and/or adult content unsuitable for minors and sensitive readers.
There has been a noticeable increase in military activity in some centres in the Eastern Cape.
This, as the province prepares to host this year's Exercise Shared Accord, a joint multi-national peace support operation and humanitarian relief exercise between South Africa and the United States.
The exercise will see various units deploying in especially Port Elizabeth, East London, Grahamstown and Bhisho.
A military spokesperson, captain Jaco Theunissen, says the aims of Shared Accord include collective training for the SANDF and the US Armed Forces, cultivate mutual understanding and the ability to operate jointly.
Theunissen says much of the focus of the exercise, which runs from the 24th to the 5th of August, will be on humanitarian assistance.
"It is a bi-lateral exercise between SANDF and the US armed forces concentrating on humanitarian assistance and intervention operation, for example a destabilised country and that is what we will practice. The National Defence Force, army, navy and medical health services will participate" he said.
