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United States — sometimes includ- ing assets from allied nations. This iteration includes only the U.S. Armed Forces and will focus on im- proving individual performance as well as interoperability between the services.
According to Holst, this is the first time the F-35A Lightning II, used by the Air Force, and F-35B Lightning II, the short-takeoff vertical landing (STOVL) variant used by the Marine Corps, will participate in the same exercise as well as the Avenger’s first time attending Red Flag.
“This is the first time we’ve de- ployed on this scale ... we brought 10 F-35s here with all of our main- tenance equipment, all of our sup- port equipment and personnel,” said Holst. “For the pilots, the opportu- nity to participate in these exercises prepares us for combat ... and the opportunity to integrate and plan with the rest of the force is some- thing you just don’t get anywhere else.”
Maj. Chris Brandt, a pilot and ad- ministration and logistics officer in charge with VMFA-211, said Red Flag’s large-scale missions, which often involve upwards of 50 aircraft working in concert, prepare pilots for combat operations and prepare main- tenance personnel for a deployed op- erational tempo.
“A lot of times at home station, we’re basically working just with each other or we’re doing things
that are [smaller in] scale and only focusing on our specific mission sets that we do,” said Brandt. “When we actually deploy, we’re most likely going to be part of a joint force so coming here you get that experience. It’s not until you come to exercises like these that you get to train across services and [train] with platforms that you typically would not work with at your home station.”
Throughout the exercise, more than 50 units and more than 80 air- craft will participate in Red Flag, conducting missions in the Nevada Test and Training Range — the U.S. Air Force’s premier military train- ing area. It has more than 12,000 square miles of airspace, 2.9 million acres of land and has 1,900 possible targets, realistic threat systems and an opposing enemy force, a training environment that is unmatched any- where else in the world.
According to Holst, Red Flag al- lows each service and subordinate unit to demonstrate their capabilities as well as understand the capabili- ties of other services, units and their equipment.
“For example, the E-18G exists in the Navy and the Air Force doesn’t really have a comparable asset to that. There may be situations where the only F-35s in theater are Marine Corps F-35s ... and you have to inte- grate the F-35s into the entire pack- age,” said Holst. “It’s always going to be necessary to bring everyone’s
Marine Corps photograph by Sgt. Lillian Stephens
A pilot with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 211 “Wake Island Avengers,” 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, conducts the preflight inspection of an F-35B Lightning II on the first day of Red Flag 17-3 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., July 10. Red Flag 17-3 is a realistic combat training exercise involving the U.S. Air Force, Army, Navy and Marine Corps and this iteration is the first to have both the Air Force’s F-35A Lightning II and the Marine Corps’ F-35B Lightning II, which is capable of short takeoff vertical landing.
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From the different services to sub- ordinate units and even to individual service members, Red Flag is an op- portunity for them to experience ad- vanced, relevant and realistic combat situations in a controlled environment,
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“I think we’ll gain a lot. We learn from them, they learn from us and at the end we come out with better tac- tics, better knowledge of the airplane and how to employ it,” said Brandt. “The missions that we’ll fly here are
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