KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. —
VIRTUAL FLAG 22-2: Homeland Protection train was efficiently executed on the 705th Fight Coaching Squadron’s Distributed Mission Operation Middle, or DMOC, situated at Kirtland Air Power Base, New Mexico, and distributed places all over the world from March 28 – Apr. 1.
VF: HLD, an Air Fight Command train, offers operational and tactical warfighter coaching in artificial, theater-level, joint-combat environments. VF: HLD centered on horizontal and vertical command and management, or C2, integrating air protection property with tactical U.S. Air Power C2 platforms.
“The digital world is the very best alternative we’ve to apply our techniques and C2 ops [operations] with out revealing plans or capabilities to these we don’t wish to see them,” in accordance with Lt. Col. Michael Butler, 705th CTS director of operations, KAFB, New Mexico.
Butler continued, “Right here, we are able to show our capability to defend the homeland with out worry of exposing our benefits. The aim is to be so good at what we try this nobody will try and problem us; they know they may lose.”
VF 22-2’s major mission areas included the protection of U.S. airspace incorporating enemy incursion by the Built-in Air and Missile Protection, C2 and Defensive Counter-Air operations. The homeland protection situation was developed in cooperation with North American Aerospace Protection Command, Continental U.S. NORAD Area and 601st Air Operations Middle material specialists to check and apply within the U.S.’s Japanese and Western Air Protection Sectors and Canadian Air Protection lanes.
“This was the apex of months of planning and cautious estimation of adversary programs of motion,” mentioned Lt. Col. Scott Bradley, NORAD IAMD future capabilities department chief, Peterson AFB, Colorado. “We refined our capability to do what we’re the very best on this planet at, deterring enemy aggression and defending our homeland.”
VF 22-2’s use of stay, digital and constructive coaching improved air fight coaching programs enabling all-domain air dominance in fight towards peer- and near-peer adversaries. LVC coaching additionally expanded fight operations coaching by enabling fast execution of a number of situations over a restricted time-frame. The quickly adaptable setting encourages studying and builds expertise with out the time or price of an solely stay train.
Throughout VF 22-2, fighter items from Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, Portland Air Nationwide Guard (flying simulators at Lakenheath Air Base, United Kingdom), Ohio ANG, District of Columbia ANG (flying simulators at Aviano AB, Italy), Shaw AFB, South Carolina, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson AFB, Alaska, and air battle managers from Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, related to the DMOC making certain the execution of the train’s goals. Over 90 operators have been skilled & 700+ readiness coaching occasions have been completed, constructing expertise and familiarizing Airmen with homeland protection techniques.
“The DMOC’s mission is to current the warfighter with the most-realistic, virtual-combat consultant world to execute tactical and operational C2 proficiency, offering our forces the setting to apply and achieve expertise in mission units that we don’t apply commonly, particularly with the present real-world occasions we’re at present witnessing,” mentioned Lt. Col. Lindsay Submit, 705th CTS commander, Kirtland AFB, New Mexico.
