Strategic Integration and Deterrence Take Center Stage in Bamboo Eagle
An integrated joint and coalition team listens to U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Christopher Niemi, U.S. Air Force Warfare Center commander, for a daily update during Exercise Bamboo Eagle 25-1 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam, Hawaii, Feb. 12, 2025. BE 25-1 is a large scale live-fly, virtual and constructive exercise, designed to employ command and control through rapid reaction, coordination, and integration of weapon systems in a combat-representative environment, generating combat air power while moving and sustaining the expeditionary air base in a dynamic environment across approximately 7.7 million square miles. (Screens, papers, charts, documents blacked out for security purposes.) (U.S. Air Force photo by Maj. Patrick Gargan)