Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. -- More than 400 members of the 943rd Rescue Group along with other reserve, active duty, and joint components took over the remote San Clemente and San Nicolas Islands to conduct exercise Distant Fury Stallion, a maritime training exercise December 3-6, 2021.
The exercise, which took place off the coast of California, is designed to test the ability of the 943rd RQG to work within the agile combat employment construct to deploy, sustain, and execute a maritime mission as though they were in the Indo-Pacific area of operations.
In May 2021, Colby was selected to be part of a new type of training initiated by the Air Force Reserve Command, AFRC, called Integrated Defense Leadership Course, IDLC. The concept was to teach critical Security Forces training and the new mindset of future battles under Agile Combat Environment, ACE.
Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 943rd Rescue Group successfully completed training scenarios that incorporated highly mobile, temporary facilities in remote, austere locations while still performing combat search and rescue operations from 30 April through 3 May.
On December 2, an Air Force Reserve technical sergeant was in the right place at the right time when a fellow passenger on a civilian flight suffered an in-flight emergency.
The Weapons and Tactics Council, WEPTAC, is the system designed to gather information from the field and ensure air dominance for the Air Reserve Component future. This year WEPTAC met throughout various locations on Davis-Monthan AFB and Morris Air National Guard Base, both bases are in Tucson, Ariz.
