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  • Cal Guard Security, Emergency Management Forces Train Together

    CHANNEL ISLANDS AIR NATIONAL GUARD STATION, Calif. - A four-person fire team stacks up outside a doorway of a two-story building made of shipping containers with burn scars on them. Armed with M4A1 carbine training rifles, they clear each space inside, challenging actors performing as hostiles and

  • Cal Guard Air Wings Demonstrate Interoperability, Deterrence

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Airmen from all five California Air National Guard wings came together at March Air Reserve Base and San Clemente Island for the Grizzly Flag exercise, demonstrating Agile Combat Employment at an austere location Sept. 6-12.“We replicated a scenario where we are operating out of

  • Nevada Civil Engineers Train in Spain to Increase Readiness

    MORON AIR BASE, Spain - Airmen from the Nevada Air National Guard’s 152nd Civil Engineer Squadron traveled to Spain for Deployment for Training June 17-July 2.During the two-week training, the 28 engineers constructed a communications storage facility; demolished 150 yards of railroad tracks,

  • 181st SFS Defenders Conduct Multiday ACE Exercise

    MUSCATATUCK URBAN TRAINING CENTER, Ind. - Airmen from the 181st Security Forces Squadron conducted an agile combat employment and domestic response exercise at Muscatatuck Urban Training Center and Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center May 30-June 4.ACE is the Air Force term to describe

  • Five ANG Wings Train at Operation Hoodoo Sea

    HOMESTEAD AIR RESERVE BASE, Fla. - Five Air National Guard wings are conducting agile combat training during Operation Hoodoo Sea along the southeast U.S. coast.The exercise, led by the Virginia ANG, seeks to test and validate minimum force elements using multi-capable Airmen executing functions

  • Western Air Defense Sector Conducts Exercise at Oregon Beach

    SUNSET BEACH, Ore. - For the past month, Airmen from the Western Air Defense Sector’s 225th Air Defense Squadron have been innovating mobile tactical command and control planning and exercises to inch closer to a vision of agile combat employment to protect the homeland.On Apr. 25, they continued

  • Joint, International Southern Strike 2023 Exercise Wraps Up

    GULFPORT, Miss. – U.S. military members across every branch of service trained with international forces on Mississippi’s coast for two weeks during Exercise Southern Strike 2023, hosted by the Mississippi National Guard.“Southern Strike is an effective way for National Guard and Reserve as well as

  • Mississippi Guard Hosts Southern Strike Exercise

    GULFPORT, Miss. – One of the U.S. Air Force’s newest concepts, Agile Combat Employment, is the focus of the Southern Strike 2023 exercise at the Gulfport Combat Readiness Training Center.Approximately 2,000 U.S. military service members are participating in the joint international combat exercise

  • Hawaii, Arizona Air Guard Conduct Readiness Training

    JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii - Hawaii and Arizona Air National Guard members completed Home Station Readiness Training at Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam on April 7.The weeklong training prepared Airmen to stand up bare bases and build proficiency for contingency operations.Seventy members