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BULLSEYE News 7April 29, 2016
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gade ght,” Daniel said. “It’s become a U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Kevin Tanenbaum
force-on-force with over 4,500 friendly
personnel and over 200 pieces of armor, Two B-1B Lancers, assigned to the 34th Bomb Squadron, Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, sit on the bomber pad before takeo
including tanks and Humvees on the during Green Flag 16-05 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., April 21. Airmen who are new to their position gain from Green Flag the repetitions
ground. It’s a very large force sort of exer- and fundamental close air support training necessary to be successful when emerged in a deployment environment.
cise working on tactics and procedures.”
With the squadrons that attend work even closer with our maintenance “So on any given sortie I have a new
Squadrons, such as the 34th BS, use preparing to deploy in the future, the guys and build that relationship that’s weapons system o cer in the back get-
Green Flag as a valuable opportunity to ability to throw a wrench in the day- going to be important while deployed. ting anywhere from eight to 10 lines on
train new B-1B pilots and crewmembers to-day operations and force aircrews to It’s a cross-check to make sure that we an hour and a half sortie of the range.”
alike for what to expect downrange. overcome the challenges of deploying have everything we need in our deploy-
provides essential experience. ment kit.” rough the entire Green Flag, the
“From the exercise perspective though, 34th BS B-1s have prepared for the stress-
our squadron has eight crews out here at “As we’re prepping to deploy, … While the pace may be fast during es of deployment and obtained valuable
the moment and half of them will be rst you’re taking your operations and Green Flag, the necessary missions that air-to-ground training in the process.
time deployers,” Daniel said. maintenance [personnel] out of their the 34th BS will eventually participate
normal ying patterns at home station, in is more than worth the price. “ e guys out here, I wouldn’t bring
ese Airmen who are new to their up-rooting them and making them any other group with me,” Kenneth
position gain from Green Flag the repeti- move forward,” Daniel said. “It helps us “We get Airmen out here and get them said. “ ey’re unreal and they’ve kept
tions and fundamental close air support doing fundamental sorties,” Daniel said. up through the whole thing.”
training necessary to be successful when
emerged in a deployment environment.
“We bring a lot of our newer pilots
and our newer o ensive and defensive
avionics guys out here so it’s a lot of crew
training,” said Tech. Sgt. Kenneth, 28th
Aircraft Maintenance Squadron. “So
right now it’s all close air support, which
is what we’ve been doing a lot more while
deployed. For them it’s really priceless
training, because what you do here and
what you can practice, bringing that to
the war ghter limits mistakes, hopefully
to zero.”
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