1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,000 2 00:00:13,170 --> 00:00:15,260 The 9 27 the refueling wing did an 3 00:00:15,270 --> 00:00:17,670 agile combat employment large force 4 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:20,850 exercise . It was not an maj com air 5 00:00:20,860 --> 00:00:23,020 force command sponsored exercise . It 6 00:00:23,030 --> 00:00:25,459 was not a combatant commander exercise . 7 00:00:25,469 --> 00:00:27,691 It wasn't a red flag . And what we were 8 00:00:27,691 --> 00:00:30,940 testing is our ability to react and 9 00:00:30,950 --> 00:00:33,159 combat against a near peer adversary . 10 00:00:38,430 --> 00:00:40,486 We had a lot of different milestones 11 00:00:40,486 --> 00:00:42,597 throughout the year to get our airmen 12 00:00:42,597 --> 00:00:44,430 ready . And I think all of those 13 00:00:44,430 --> 00:00:46,319 aspects made the exercise overall 14 00:00:46,319 --> 00:00:48,263 successful in the airmen ready and 15 00:00:48,263 --> 00:00:50,486 confident in what they're going to have 16 00:00:50,486 --> 00:00:52,652 to do when they go down range . Far as 17 00:00:52,652 --> 00:00:55,110 training , we've done T triple C um sea 18 00:00:55,119 --> 00:00:58,310 burn um training . Um and that kind of 19 00:00:58,319 --> 00:01:00,299 all played a part into the mission 20 00:01:00,310 --> 00:01:03,040 where we had people using our T triple 21 00:01:03,049 --> 00:01:06,690 C . We had some aspects of in there and 22 00:01:06,699 --> 00:01:08,866 then we definitely used C burn in full 23 00:01:08,866 --> 00:01:10,866 force . So that all kind of plays a 24 00:01:10,866 --> 00:01:12,977 part in readiness because we all need 25 00:01:12,977 --> 00:01:15,199 that in order to be ready . We all need 26 00:01:15,199 --> 00:01:16,921 to have that specific training 27 00:01:19,470 --> 00:01:22,230 at Cecil Field . We took our operations 28 00:01:22,239 --> 00:01:24,350 and maintenance and four aircraft and 29 00:01:24,350 --> 00:01:26,720 we tested our ability to deploy forward 30 00:01:26,730 --> 00:01:29,699 and then remotely be redeployed and re 31 00:01:29,709 --> 00:01:32,000 tasked to take care of our air 32 00:01:32,010 --> 00:01:34,209 refueling missions in support of the 33 00:01:34,220 --> 00:01:35,498 fighters and bombers . 34 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:41,069 We're in a smaller group in a format on 35 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:43,136 the road . There's less people doing 36 00:01:43,136 --> 00:01:45,302 more jobs . So there's pilots checking 37 00:01:45,302 --> 00:01:47,191 oil and all of us are doing other 38 00:01:47,191 --> 00:01:49,024 people's jobs because we're in a 39 00:01:49,024 --> 00:01:51,247 smaller team , but we still have to get 40 00:01:51,247 --> 00:01:53,469 it done . So the same inspections still 41 00:01:53,469 --> 00:01:55,524 get done , the same recoveries , the 42 00:01:55,524 --> 00:01:55,279 same launches , there's only two or 43 00:01:55,290 --> 00:01:57,346 three of us and then there's the air 44 00:01:57,346 --> 00:01:59,970 crew . So we still get a 10 person job 45 00:01:59,980 --> 00:02:02,680 done with maybe four people and those 46 00:02:02,690 --> 00:02:04,746 people are just more multi capable , 47 00:02:04,746 --> 00:02:07,120 which is the point . The exercise was 48 00:02:07,129 --> 00:02:09,570 five days long . It had different 49 00:02:09,580 --> 00:02:13,539 aspects of A E medical moving 50 00:02:13,550 --> 00:02:15,772 patients as S T S standing up hospitals 51 00:02:15,772 --> 00:02:17,828 to care for the patients , hot pit , 52 00:02:17,828 --> 00:02:19,772 refueling for the air crew and the 53 00:02:19,772 --> 00:02:21,939 maintainers and working off of a field 54 00:02:21,939 --> 00:02:24,161 that is not a military installation and 55 00:02:24,161 --> 00:02:26,161 it was a civilian airfield that was 56 00:02:26,161 --> 00:02:28,383 just , just certified to do the hot pit 57 00:02:28,383 --> 00:02:32,330 stuff . We essentially got 58 00:02:32,339 --> 00:02:34,283 to do our mission which is patient 59 00:02:34,283 --> 00:02:37,669 movement . And uh with that came other 60 00:02:37,679 --> 00:02:40,899 components with uh readiness like burn . 61 00:02:40,910 --> 00:02:43,300 Any teacher will see . And we got our 62 00:02:43,309 --> 00:02:45,740 hands on equipment . Uh We got our 63 00:02:45,750 --> 00:02:47,820 hands on situations , for example , 64 00:02:47,830 --> 00:02:49,997 with the patients , we essentially got 65 00:02:49,997 --> 00:02:52,539 to do our job with patient movement and 66 00:02:52,710 --> 00:02:55,139 we got to work alongside A S as well , 67 00:02:55,149 --> 00:02:57,500 which is crucial to our mission as well . 68 00:02:58,770 --> 00:03:01,449 They , they're ready , they 69 00:03:01,460 --> 00:03:03,516 successfully pushed this mission for 70 00:03:03,516 --> 00:03:05,571 four days straight no matter what it 71 00:03:05,571 --> 00:03:07,839 looked like . And they did it with such 72 00:03:07,850 --> 00:03:10,139 amazing attitudes and such confidence . 73 00:03:10,220 --> 00:03:12,470 They all were very confident in their 74 00:03:12,479 --> 00:03:14,130 level of expertise on what they do .