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Green Flag-West

provides realistic air-land integration combat training

An Airman with the 921st Contingency Response Squadron opera-
tions flight commander assigned to Travis Air Force Base, explains
to a Radar Airfield Weather Systems technician assigned to the 355th An Airman with the 921st
Operations Support Squadron at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, how Contingency Response
to better direct aircraft during Green Flag-West at Fort Irwin, California, Squadron airfield manag-
Jan. 19, 2022. This exercise utilized the Agile Combat Employment con- er assigned to Travis Air
cept, which creates a network of smaller, dispersed locations that can Force Base, picks up the
complicate adversary planning and provide more options for joint force portable runway lights
commanders. after A-10 Thunderbolt IIs
assigned to Davis-Mon-
than Air Force Base took
off from a dry lakebed
during Green Flag-West
at Fort Irwin, California,
Jan. 19, 2022. Green Flag-
West is a realistic air-land
integration combat train-
ing exercise involving the
air forces of the United
States and its allies.

LEFT: An A-10 Thunder-
bolt II assigned to Davis-
Monthan Air Force Base,
is parked in a dry lakebed
during Green Flag-West
at Fort Irwin, California,
Jan. 19, 2022.

Photos by Airman 1st Class Josey Blades
Airmen assigned to the 355th Operations Support Squadron at Davis-Monthan Air An Airman assigned to the 355th Operations Support Squadron at Davis-Monthan
Force Base set up runway markers in a dry lakebed during Green Flag-West at Fort Air Force Base sets up runway markers in a dry lakebed during Green Flag-West at An A-10 Thunderbolt II assigned to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base lands on a dry
Irwin, California, Jan. 19, 2022. This exercise utilized the Agile Combat Employment Fort Irwin, California, Jan. 19, 2022. Airmen learned how to conduct their operations, lakebed during Green Flag-West at Fort Irwin, California, Jan. 19, 2022. Green Flag- Airman 1st Class Seth Joseph, 354th Aircraft Maintenance Unit crew chief, conducts
concept which creates a network of smaller, dispersed locations that can complicate including flight, maintenance, security and logistics from a simulated deployment West is a realistic air-land integration combat training exercise, involving the air forces pre-flight checks on an A-10 Thunderbolt II during Green Flag-West at Fort Irwin, Cali-
adversary planning and provide more options for joint force commanders. environment. of the United States and its allies. fornia, Jan. 19, 2022.