Sept. 20, 2024 Bamboo Eagle: ‘Upping our game’ for Great Power Competition Exercise Bamboo Eagle 24-3 integrated U.S. Airmen, Guardians, Sailors, Marines, and allies from Australia and the United Kingdom into a combined force to train for a possible conflict in the era of Great Power Competition. The exercise conducted live-fly operations in the eastern Pacific and a
Sept. 10, 2024 Air Force examines emerging tactics during Bamboo Eagle More than 10,000 personnel from the Department of Defense, the United Kingdom, and Australia participated in exercise Bamboo Eagle 24-3, a combat-representative exercise including operational test and evaluation experts from the 605th Test and Evaluation Squadron. The OT&E experts’ mission was to
Aug. 16, 2024 Beale and the B-52: 307th and 2nd Bomb Wings test ACE concept in unfamiliar environment Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 307th Bomb Wing, along with their active-duty counterparts in the 2nd Bomb Wing, joined forces with the 940th Air Refueling Wing to participate in an Agile Combat Employment (ACE) exercise here Aug. 8-15.
July 15, 2024 366 FW rehearses for deployment at Contingency Location Operation Rehearsal 2024 The 366th Fighter Wing’s Expeditionary Air Base (XAB) and Command and Control (C2) elements participated in the Contingency Location Operations Rehearsal 2024 from 24-28 June, sending close to 100 Gunfighters across the country to practice for future deployments.
June 13, 2024 Team Barksdale highlights interoperability, ACE concept during exercise Airmen from the active-duty 2nd Bomb Wing and Air Force Reserve 307th Bomb Wing teamed up with Nebraska Air National Guardsmen and Army Reserve soldiers to practice remote refueling capabilities on a B-52 Stratofortress during the Quartermaster Liquid Logistics Exercise (QLLEX) June 6, 2024, at
March 7, 2024 Bamboo Eagle, first-ever US, UK, AUS C2-driven, live-fly, simultaneous LVC exercise Airmen from the 505th Command and Control Wing at Hurlburt Field, Nellis Air Force Base, and Kirtland AFB executed the U.S. Air Force Warfare Center's first-ever C2-driven, live-fly and simultaneous live, virtual, and constructive exercise Bamboo Eagle for more than 3,000 U.S. service members and
Aug. 24, 2023 Joint and coalition warfighters complete advanced, multi-domain operations integration course At Hurlburt Field, Florida, 22 warfighters from the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, and Royal Australian Air Force recently completed the Air Force’s Command and Control Warrior Advanced Course, or C2WAC, which taught them how to integrate both kinetic and non-kinetic capabilities available to the
July 27, 2023 AOC FTU hosts ACC Joint Airspace Conference ‘23 In conjunction with Air Combat Command Personnel Recovery and Joint Integration Division, the 505th Training Squadron hosted the Joint Airspace Conference June 27-28 at Hurlburt Field, Florida. The conference, which addressed current and relevant joint and combatant command airspace issues and
May 11, 2023 AOC FTU reopens for initial qualification training Undertaking the largest modernization of Air Operations Center initial qualification training in the history of the unit, the 505th Training Squadron has reopened its doors for students to attend training.
March 7, 2023 920th Mission Support Group executes agile combat employment concepts in field The 920th Mission Support Group applied Agile Combat Employment concepts to hone their tactics, techniques, and procedures to execute field operations in contested, austere environments during exercise DISTANT SHADOW here, March 2.Over 150 920th MSG Airmen were taken to a remote location where they