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Weapons-minded warriors converge at 162nd Wing

Staff Sgt. Micah Hill                               weapons and tactics knowledge, with other essen-                                             (Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt Micah Hill/Released)
                                                    tial players within the ARC operational loop.
162nd Wing Public Affairs                                                                               Lt. Gen. James Jackson, Commander of the Air Force Reserve
                                                       During the week-long conference, more than       and Lt. Gen. Stanley Clark III, the director of Air National Guard
   TUCSON, Ariz. - -- Warfighters from               700 ARC members assembled for the event to at-      arrive at Tucson International Airport to participate in the 34th
throughout the Air Reserve Component (ARC)          tend briefings and discussions between the two       annual WEPTAC Council.
gathered for the 34th annual ARC Weapons and        operating locations of the 162nd and 355th. There
Tactics Council Oct. 19-23 at the Tucson Inter-     were 31 different working groups with specific        national Airport and Davis Monthan Air Force
national Airport and Davis-Monthan AFB, home        breakouts that discussed the tactical development   Base, focused on the rapidly expanding mission
of the conference hosts Air National Guard Air      and modernization planning for the future of their  sets of the Air Reserve Component, and brought
Force Reserve Command Test Center, the 162nd        respective airframes and mission sets.              together warfighters from multiple airframes and
Wing, and the 355th Fighter Wing.                                                                       mission sets to discuss tactics, weapons, and so-
                                                       The conference concluded with an executive       lutions for tomorrow’s challenges.
   This year’s theme was “Defend the Homeland -     meeting and out-brief of warfighter conclusions
Win the Nation’s Wars.” The focus of the event was  to Lt. Gen. Stanley Clark III, the director of the
on the rapidly expanding mission sets of the Air    Air National Guard, and Lt. Gen. James Jackson,
Reserve Component and its warfighters involved       the commander of the Air Force Reserve.
in domestic and overseas contingency operations.
                                                       “These select warfighters spend three days
   “The absolute objective of WEPTAC is to de-      discussing Airmen combat priorities, lessons
fine warfighter requirements from an unfiltered        learned, and tactics proposals before briefing
bottom up perspective bringing in weapons of-       them directly to the ARC senior leadership, con-
ficers, tacticians, and Air Staffs from across the    gressional staffers, and peers,” said Sherry.
ARC,” said Lt. Col. Brian Sherry, the WEPTAC
Council Chairman and Air National Guard Air            Previous WEPTAC councils have produced
Force Reserve Command Test Center F-16 pilot.       immediate changes for future requirements
                                                    based off input from the warfighters, field rep-
   The WEPTAC conference is a chance for all        resentatives, major command staffs, system pro-
airframes and mission sets to interact with other   gram offices, and industry.
warfighters also engaged in current operations.
This allows the ARC to share its mission, and          The event, held Oct. 19-23 at Tucson Inter-

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