More than 12 Air Force Reserve units from the 22nd and 10th Air Force and various Army National Guard units participated in Rally in the Rockies 21, a multi-day training exercise in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, Sept. 13-16, 2021. The exercise included cargo drops, high-altitude paratrooper drops, task force resupply and personnel extraction. The scenario was designed to test the abilities of Air Force Reserve units to execute rapid global mobility missions in challenging, contested scenarios.
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Air Force Reserve Command kicked off a week-long exercise, Rally in the Rockies 2021, by landing a C-130J Super Hercules aircraft on the highway near Rawlins, Wyoming, Sept. 13.
Airmen in the 913th Airlift Group at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, were part of the first Reserve unit to be trained on the Block 8.1 upgrade for the C-130J Super Hercules.
The Block 8.1 upgrade boosts navigation and inter-communication systems, updates friend-or-foe identification and standardizes aviation systems, which will improve interoperability across the fleet. The modification also allows the C-130J to comply with...
