The U.S. Air Force will lead exercise Astral Knight 20, scheduled to take place in September, primarily taking place at air bases throughout Poland and other locations in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Astral Knight 2020 is a joint and multinational exercise that will involve airmen, soldiers and sailors from the United States and airmen from Estonia, Latvia,...
The 2020 Arctic Warfare Exercise is part of the U.S. Navy Submarine Arctic Warfare Program sponsored by the CNO. It is a biennial submarine force tactical development exercise managed by the Arctic Submarine Lab. Submarine crews conduct training, test new equipment, and improve submarine operability and warfighting capabilities in cold water conditions.
Kosovo Force Mission Rehearsal Exercise is designed to prepare the U.S. units for operations in support of NATO in Kosovo. The exercise is based on the current operational environment and is designed to prepare the unit for peace support, stability and contingency operations in support of Kosovo civil authorities to maintain a safe and secure environment.
Northern Viking 20 is a bi-lateral exercise between Iceland and the United States, along with 11 partner and ally countries. The exercise is from April 15-30 in Iceland. Other supporting locations include Germany, Norway, the U.K. and the U.S.
Participating countries include: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the...
Flintlock is the premier special operations forces exercise for U.S. Africa Command. The exercise strengthens security institutions, promotes multilateral sharing of information, and develops interoperability among the partner nations of the Trans-Sahara Counter-Terrorism Partnership.
Cope South is a Pacific Air Forces-sponsored bilateral tactical airlift exercise supporting the attainment of service and combined training objectives, which include activities designed to test operational employment concepts, evaluate participating nations’ capabilities and shortfalls to improve combined interoperability and inform follow-on operations, actions and activities.
Nearly 400 medical personnel from Landstuhl Regional Medical Center and 30th Medical Brigade will participate in Operation Courageous Defense, a collective training exercise designed to showcase integrated medical operations in the European theater, March 3-6. As part of their preparations for DEFENDER-Europe 20, a theater-wide exercise with the largest deployment of U.S.-based forces to...
From 1941 through 1946, nearly 1,000 young men were trained as pilots, and, after successfully completing the training, they received their commissions and silver pilot wings. The Tuskegee Airmen formed the 332nd Fighter Group which originally consisted of four fighter squadrons: the 99th, the 100th, the 301st and the 302nd. They flew over 15,000 missions/sorties in the European Theater of...
