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KUNSAN AIR BASE, Republic of Korea-- The Wolf Pack honed its agile combat employment
capabilities during exercise Beverly Sentinel 25-1 at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea,
November 12-15, 2024.
Agile combat employment (ACE) is the concept of quickly and effectively dispersing assets and
manpower across a network of smaller locations, rather than concentrating airpower at larger
bases, to complicate adversary planning and increase overall combat survivability.
Beverly Sentinel 25-1 was designed with several routine readiness and ACE components that
enabled Airmen to practice, understand and showcase their proficiency in executing
contingency operations while responding to training scenarios that tested them physically and
mentally across multiple domains.
“In the months leading up to Bev Sent, the ACE Operational Planning Team enhanced the
equipment and manning packages to support a larger, more combat-capable ACE movement
while maintaining a lean and agile footprint,” said Maj. Alex Carmona, 8th Fighter Wing chief of
future operations and ACE lead. “During the exercise, the Fighter Wing measured the execution
of Cargo and Personnel Deployment Function timelines, highlighting the importance of
coordination between the Installation Deployment Readiness Center and Unit Deployment
Monitors across the Fighter Wing.”
Squadrons across the base focused on unit-specific skills, including emergency operations,
crisis action team coordination, general arming procedures, mass casualty response, tactical
combat casualty care, and weapons training.
Sewing ACE concepts into units such as the 8th Logistics Readiness Squadron is crucial to
operational success.
“For our portion, the 8th LRS focused on the preparation of our Force, ensuring all support
functions are in sync so that [the Wolf Pack] can generate sorties and complete any mission,”
said 1st Lt. Kaalakaiopono Faurot, 8th LRS installation deployment officer. “In the exercise, the
installation deployment readiness cell, played a key role in the 8th Fighter Wing’s agile combat
employment movements by ensuring that all cargo and personnel are processed properly to
deploy to their disclosed location.”
The 8
th LRS also collaborated with the 8th Force Support Squadron to successfully develop the
ACE concept during Beverly Sentinel 25-1.
“FSS as a whole concentrated on processing the personnel deployment line to get them on a
plane in an hour while also teaching new Airmen the basic tactics such as general arming and
TCCC,” said Staff Sgt. Nathaniel Turvey, 8th FSS noncommissioned officer in charge of
personnel contingency operations. “Due to Kunsan being a short tour, there is constant
turnover, so training like Beverly Sentinel 25-1 provides a great opportunity for us to practice
and execute how things are done here.”
The exercise’s success relied on seamless coordination and collaboration among all agencies
and units involved to complete the mission effectively.
“By guaranteeing that our people and cargo are at the right place at the right time, we are
accomplishing the Wing’s ACE movements,” said Faurot. “We’re definitely considered to be
working behind the scenes of things. These small agencies and operations are what help make
things happen and accomplish these missions.”
By refining ACE movements and integrating cross-organizational training, the 8th Fighter Wing
is committed to adapting to evolving challenges and developing operational strategies that
optimize mission effectiveness.
“When executing ACE, the Wolf Pack mission would survive and continue to generate within the
Korean Theater of Operations and Indo-Pacific,” said Carmona.
| Date Taken: | 11.20.2024 |
| Date Posted: | 11.20.2024 04:06 |
| Story ID: | 485718 |
| Location: | KUNSAN AIR BASE, KR |
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