Wisconsin Air National Guardsmen assigned to the 115th Fighter Wing participated in Operation Iron Orchid, a combat readiness exercise, June 22 – 26 at Volk Field Air National Guard Base in Camp Douglas.
Operation Iron Orchid was the fighter wing’s largest exercise in 23 years designed to test and reinforce the unit’s ability to operate in a combat environment under a new deployment model.
“In the type of environment we have to be ready to fight against a near-peer adversary, you can’t just show up and learn who your team is when you get to the game,” said U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Jason Crabb, the 115th Fighter Wing’s director of inspections. “You have to be able to train that way together.”
The exercise brought...
