CAMP BLANDING JOINT TRAINING CENTER, Fla.ā€Æ— Approximately 250 Air National Guard (ANG) and active-duty airmen from five U.S. states converged on Camp Blanding Joint Training Center Jan. 30 to Feb. 1, 2025, for February Exercise 2025 (FEBEX 25), a rigorous three-day exercise designed to test their readiness for global contingencies. Reinforcing the Agile Combat Employment Strategy (ACE), the exercise focused on engineering, communications, weather forecasting, and bare-base operations under contested conditions.
The 2025 iteration of FEBEX introduced nighttime operations, providing a new level of added complexity. Participants underwent training in both daytime and nighttime environments, where they responded to simulated,...