Imagery of Lightning Challenge 2022
On June 6, 1944 the United States military participated in the largest multinational amphibious landing and operational military airdrop in history. This assault led to France’s liberation from the German military and the eventual defeat of the Nazis. By the end of the D-Day invasion, more than 9,000 allied troops were dead or wounded.
U.S. troops remain forever indebted to WWII veterans...
ATREUS is a U.S. European Command training series with participation from Norway, Poland, Romania, and the United Kingdom. ATREUS is designed to demonstrate U.S., NATO ally, and partner nations’ ability to rapidly deploy precision air-to-surface missile, ground missile, and rocket fire capabilities within the European theater.
Checkered Flag, one of the Department of Defense’s largest air-to-air exercises, is a large-scale aerial exercise which fosters readiness and interoperability, designed to integrate fourth and fifth-generation airframes to enhance mobility, deployment, and employment capabilities of aviators and maintainers. The two-week long exercise focuses on integration of the F-22 Raptor and F-35A...
The U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) will deploy to the U.S. Southern Command area of operations this fall as part of U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet’s Continuing Promise 2022 mission. The ship will visit Colombia, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras. Continuing Promise 2022 marks the twelfth mission to the region since 2007 and the seventh...
The 2022 A/TA Symposium brings together Air Force senior leaders, industry partners, media representatives, and Mobility Airmen an open environment to engage on issues and challenges facing America and the Air Mobility community on a global scale. The symposium will be held at the Gaylord Rockies in Denver, Colorado, Oct. 27-30, 2022. The first A/TA annual convention was held in 1970 and the...
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Large Scale Exercise (LSE) is a triennial exercise conducted by U.S. Fleet Forces Command, U.S. Pacific Fleet, and U.S. Naval Forces Europe that is designed to refine how we synchronize maritime operations across multiple Fleets, in support of the joint force. The training is based on a progression of scenarios that will assess and refine modern warfare concepts, including Distributed Maritime...
