The 53rd Wing and 49th Wing, alongside veterans, retirees and community members, bid farewell to the last active duty F-4 Phantom II airframes in a ceremony at Holloman AFB, NM on December 21, 2016.
Quick Shot is a two-week field training exercise designed to evaluate combat camera personnel for deployment by integrating weapons tactics and visual information documentation in a simulated semi permissible field environment. Quick Shot is hosted by Fleet Combat Camera Pacific and is conducted semi-annually.
The number of R&R flight travelers has decreased to an average of 20-30 passengers daily due to the change in the Army deployment policy, the end of OIF and the reduction of forces in OEF. The current operational environment and fiscal constraints allows us to adjust the R&R Flight program in a way that saves resources while continuing to meet all mission requirements and better serve our...
Raging Gunfighter is an exercise designed to simulate operating a Lead Wing from an austere environment. The purpose of this exercise is to prepare the 366th Fighter Wing for potential Agile Combat Employment (ACE) operations around the world.
The 22nd Air Force exercise Rally in the Pacific was designed to test the abilities of Air Force Reserve units to execute rapid global mobility missions in challenging, contested scenarios. Exercising elements of agile combat employment with our Multi-Capable Mobility Airmen enables us to operate from locations with varying levels of capacity and support, ensuring Airmen and aircrews are...
More than 12 Air Force Reserve units from the 22nd and 10th Air Force and various Army National Guard units participated in Rally in the Rockies 21, a multi-day training exercise in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, Sept. 13-16, 2021. The exercise included cargo drops, high-altitude paratrooper drops, task force resupply and personnel extraction. The scenario was designed to test the abilities of...
This is the official DVIDS page for the U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (Airborne) Randy Oler Memorial Toy Drop 2.0 (OTD2.0).
Established in 1998, by then Staff Sergeant Randy Oler, a U.S. Army Civil Affairs & Psychological Operations Command(Airborne) (USACAPOC(A)) Soldier, Operation Toy Drop (OTD) began as a training event and airborne operation.
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Rapid Forge is a USAFE-led mission to enhance readiness and test our ability to function at locations other than main air bases, which is called dispersal operations. Rapid Forge will include F-35A Lightning II and F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets forward deploying from Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, to bases in the territory of other NATO allies. Additional USAFE-based aircraft, including...
