LITTLE ROCK AIR FORCE BASE, Ark. -- Personnel from the 34th Combat Training Squadron and U.S. Army personnel collaborated with coalition forces from France, New Zealand and Australia during the Green Flag Little Rock 18-06 exercise April 6-15, 2018, located at both Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, and Ft. Polk, Louisiana.
Green Flag is a live joint-training-tactical exercise which maximizes proficiencies in command and control, planning, airlift and air mobility support operations.
"Our coalition and joint partners are critical to projecting and sustaining combat airlift across the globe," said U.S. Air Force Col. Gerald Donohue, 19th Airlift Wing commander. "Exercises such as Green Flag provide us with opportunities to train together, improve our interoperability and strengthen our partnerships, all of which enable us to provide agile combat airlift at a moment's notice, anywhere in the world."
Goals of Green Flag are to improve mission management, situational awareness and weather planning. Through focused determination, thorough communication and total force integration, these goals were met.
“Green Flag allows the Airmen to have an opportunity to do their job in a static environment before entering a real-world situation,” said Master Sgt. Corey Long, 19th Operations Support Squadron chief of training.”
Additionally, Green Flag allows an array of military forces to hone their skills in a variety strategies which will benefit future operations with Air Force allies.
“The training permitted the U.S. Air Force and international partners to work together and learn from one another,” Long said. “It’s important to train with our partners so we’re better prepared to work in a real-world situation.”
No two exercises are the same, which helps the mobility enterprise continually challenge their warfighting skills, while providing real-world experiences with partners they may not be able to get with home-station training.
The Green Flag Little Rock exercise is the premiere Mobility Air Force training which occurs four times annually. It continuously evolves to prepare the war fighter to perform in any environment.
For more coverage on Green Flag please visit http://www.littlerock.af.mil/.