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This video contains sound bites from BRIGADIER GENERAL CRAIG D. WILLS, Director of Strategic Plans, Requirements and Programs, Headquarters Pacific Air Forces, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, collected on 14 March 2017. The subject of discussion is the Pacific F-35 Symposium at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam from 14-17 March.
The symposium is a PACAF-hosted event that brings together the four Pacific members of the F-35 program: Japan, Australia, the Republic of Korea and the U.S. While attending the event, senior officers, warfighters and F-35 experts discussed a range of topics related to integrating the F-35 into multilateral air operations in the Indo-Asia-Pacific. The U.S. currently flies the F-35B out of Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, and is scheduled to field two additional squadrons at Eielson AFB, Alaska, starting in 2020. Australia and Japan are already flying their own F-35s and the ROK is projected to receive its first in 2018.
Questions asked:
-How is U.S. Pacific Air Forces enhancing operations in the Pacific with this event?
-Why is it important to have fifth-generation aircraft capabilities and integration of those capabilities in this theater?
-Why is it important our allies have the same capabilities?
-As the largest gathering of 5th Generation warfighters in history, what message do you want to send to our friends and neighbors in the Pacific?
-How does the symposium build operational understanding between our allies: Australia, Japan, Republic of Korea?
| Date Taken: | 03.14.2017 |
| Date Posted: | 03.15.2017 16:01 |
| Category: | Interviews |
| Video ID: | 514198 |
| VIRIN: | 170314-F-TK001-234 |
| Filename: | DOD_104165869 |
| Length: | 00:03:53 |
| Location: | JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, HAWAII, US |
| Downloads: | 11 |
| High-Res. Downloads: | 11 |
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