Sept. 20, 2024 Bamboo Eagle: ‘Upping our game’ for Great Power Competition Exercise Bamboo Eagle 24-3 integrated U.S. Airmen, Guardians, Sailors, Marines, and allies from Australia and the United Kingdom into a combined force to train for a possible conflict in the era of Great Power Competition. The exercise conducted live-fly operations in the eastern Pacific and a
Sept. 10, 2024 Air Force examines emerging tactics during Bamboo Eagle More than 10,000 personnel from the Department of Defense, the United Kingdom, and Australia participated in exercise Bamboo Eagle 24-3, a combat-representative exercise including operational test and evaluation experts from the 605th Test and Evaluation Squadron. The OT&E experts’ mission was to
Aug. 16, 2024 Beale and the B-52: 307th and 2nd Bomb Wings test ACE concept in unfamiliar environment Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 307th Bomb Wing, along with their active-duty counterparts in the 2nd Bomb Wing, joined forces with the 940th Air Refueling Wing to participate in an Agile Combat Employment (ACE) exercise here Aug. 8-15.
July 15, 2024 366 FW rehearses for deployment at Contingency Location Operation Rehearsal 2024 The 366th Fighter Wing’s Expeditionary Air Base (XAB) and Command and Control (C2) elements participated in the Contingency Location Operations Rehearsal 2024 from 24-28 June, sending close to 100 Gunfighters across the country to practice for future deployments.
June 13, 2024 Team Barksdale highlights interoperability, ACE concept during exercise Airmen from the active-duty 2nd Bomb Wing and Air Force Reserve 307th Bomb Wing teamed up with Nebraska Air National Guardsmen and Army Reserve soldiers to practice remote refueling capabilities on a B-52 Stratofortress during the Quartermaster Liquid Logistics Exercise (QLLEX) June 6, 2024, at
March 7, 2024 Bamboo Eagle, first-ever US, UK, AUS C2-driven, live-fly, simultaneous LVC exercise Airmen from the 505th Command and Control Wing at Hurlburt Field, Nellis Air Force Base, and Kirtland AFB executed the U.S. Air Force Warfare Center's first-ever C2-driven, live-fly and simultaneous live, virtual, and constructive exercise Bamboo Eagle for more than 3,000 U.S. service members and
Feb. 26, 2024 PACAF, allies prepare for the future; complete large-scale exercise in the Pacific While the Air and Space Forces Association Warfare Symposium was taking place in Colorado, Pacific Air Forces Airmen were already implementing the vision – more large-scale exercises with allies and partners in the region.
Sept. 24, 2023 Deep dive into RITP23 water survival training Along the shores of ‘Alula Beach in Kailua, Hawaii, during exercise Rally in the Pacific 2023, Airmen from across various units within the U.S. Air Force Reserve completed a Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape water survival training course, Sept. 14.RITP23 takes place in the Indo-Pacific
Sept. 18, 2023 SecAF announces Air Task Force model Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall announced the Air Task Force as the next step in the Air Force’s Force Generation model during the Air and Space Forces Association’s 2023 Air, Space and Cyber Conference.
Aug. 24, 2023 Joint and coalition warfighters complete advanced, multi-domain operations integration course At Hurlburt Field, Florida, 22 warfighters from the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, and Royal Australian Air Force recently completed the Air Force’s Command and Control Warrior Advanced Course, or C2WAC, which taught them how to integrate both kinetic and non-kinetic capabilities available to the