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BULLSEYE News 5January 22, 2016

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Load crew
competition
tests teamwork

Staff Sgt. Nancy Warner, assigned to the U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Joshua Kleinholz
757th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron,
Thunder Aircraft Maintenance Unit,
inspects ordnance prior to upload onto
an A-10 Thunderbolt II during the annual
load crew competition Jan. 15 at Nellis
Air Force Base, Nev. A great amount of
attention to detail is required during
arrangement inspections to ensure crew
safety and mission functionality.

RED FLAG, from page 1 _____________________

squadrons from both the Royal Australian Air Force and U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Thomas Spangler
the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force.
An F-16 Fighting Falcon assigned to the 457th Fighter Squadron, Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base,
The 414th Combat Training Squadron, assigned to the Texas, takes off during Red Flag 15-4 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Aug. 25, 2015. All four U.S. military services, their
57th Wing, is responsible for executing Red Flag. The ex- Guard and Reserve components and the air forces of other countries participate in each Red Flag exercise.
ercise is one out of a series of advanced training programs
administered at Nellis AFB and on the Nevada Test and
Training Range by organizations assigned to the U.S. Air
Force Warfare Center.

Red Flag began in 1975 strictly as an aerial combat exer-
cise but has evolved to include warfighting across air, space
and cyberspace domains for United States and coalition air
forces. The exercise has provided training for more than
440,000 military personnel, including more than 145,000
aircrew members flying more than 385,000 sorties and
logging more than 660,000 hours of flying time.

Flying squadrons and assigned personnel deploy to Nel-
lis AFB for Red Flag under the Air Expeditionary Force
concept and make up the exercise’s “Blue” forces. Blue
forces are able to utilize the diverse capabilities of their
aircraft to execute specific missions, such as air interdic-
tion, combat search and rescue, close air support, dynamic
targeting and defensive counter air on the NTTR.

The NTTR is north of Las Vegas — the range is the U.S.
Air Force’s premier military training area with more than
15,000 square miles of airspace and 2.9 million acres of
land. With 1,900 possible targets, realistic threat systems
and an opposing enemy force that cannot be replicated
anywhere else in the world.

Nellis AFB and the NTTR are the home of a simulated
battlefield, providing combat air forces with the ability
to train to fight together in a peacetime environment to
survive and win together. The exercise also prepares
maintenance personal, ground controllers, space and cyber
operators to support the mission within the same tactical
environment.

For more information about Red Flag, call the 99th ABW
Public Affairs office at 702-652-2750 or view the Red Flag
fact sheet at http://www.nellis.af.mil/library/factsheets/
factsheet.asp?id=19160.