100 New York Nationwide Guard airmen, together with 80 from the 106th Rescue Wing, are collaborating in workout routines with their Brazilian air drive counterparts by Aug. 31.
The U.S. airmen are working from the Brazilian air drive base at Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, as a part of Train Tapio, a Brazilian search and rescue and shut air assist train.
The coaching entails 1,100 Brazilian personnel and plane.
An official with the U.S. Southern Command mentioned the train would “develop our collective means to satisfy advanced world challenges, counter threats and preserve regional safety and stability.”
The U.S. part is led by Air Power Col. Jeff Cannet, the 106th Operations Group commander. It consists of one HC-130J Fight King II search and rescue plane, three HH-60 Pave Hawk search and rescue helicopters, and two C-17 Globemaster III transport plane.
The 106th Rescue Wing is predicated at Gabreski Air Nationwide Guard Base in Westhampton Seaside, New York.
Members of the New York Air Nationwide Guard’s one hundred and fifth Airlift Wing flew the three helicopters to Campo Grande on the C-17 Globemaster III plane. The wing is predicated at Stewart Air Nationwide Guard Base in Newburgh, New York.
Additionally collaborating within the mission are personnel from the New York Air Nationwide Guard’s 274th Air Help Operations Squadron, which specialise in calling airstrikes, and the 107th Assault Wing, which flies the remotely piloted MQ-9 Reaper plane.
Two A-10 Thunderbolt pilots from the Maryland Air Nationwide Guard joined the workforce to supply their perception on shut air assist.
The Oregon Air Nationwide Guard contributed a four-airman, combat-controller workforce from the 142nd Wing, one hundred and twenty fifth Particular Ways Squadron, that makes a speciality of working in austere environments.
That is the second 12 months the New York Air Nationwide Guard has participated in Train Tapio. In 2021, the train simulated conflict eventualities, together with helicopter infiltration and extrication, rope rescues, separated survivor eventualities, and an city operation with a car extrication and mass casualty occasion.
This 12 months’s train added the aerial refueling of the HH-60s by the HC-130J Fight King plane into the combo.
“It is nice to be participating in Train Tapio once more with a bigger workforce than ever earlier than,” Cannet mentioned.
“The friendships {and professional} improvement have grown behind the scenes over the previous 12 months and seeing all that come collectively throughout this train has been rewarding. We stay up for rising this robust partnership for years to return,” he mentioned.
The New York Air Nationwide Guard was invited to take part due to its partnership with Brazil’s navy underneath the Protection Division’s Nationwide Guard Bureau State Partnership Program.
New York Nationwide Guard models take part in joint coaching and exchanges with their Brazilian counterparts to extend interoperability.
Latest interactions concerned a go to by the New York Air Nationwide Guard’s 222nd Command and Management Squadron, an area operations unit, with their Brazilian counterparts. Brazilian leaders have additionally visited New York and noticed safety operations in New York Metropolis.
The State Partnership Program was created following the top of the Chilly Warfare and paired state Nationwide Guards with the militaries of former Soviet bloc nations.
Since then, this system has expanded. New York additionally has a partnership with the South African Nationwide Protection Power.
