COLDFOOT CAMP, ALASKA —
Train AGILE BLIZZARD-UNIFIED VISION (AB-UV) Part II, an arctic-based Agile Fight Employment (ACE) train, occurred June 10-13, 2023. AB-UV supplied the fifty fifth and thirty fifth Fight Communications Squadrons (CBCS), Tinker Air Power Base, Oklahoma, and 52nd Community Warfare Squadron (NWS), Offutt Air Power Base, Nebraska, the chance to check their fight communications capabilities for the primary time above the Arctic Circle.
That is the primary time efficiently conducting some of these exams. Beforehand, there have been no present commonplace working procedures established for this kind of operation or for in distant areas. The exams run on each system had been profitable at every location and led to the creation of latest commonplace working procedures.
“What we’re doing right here [in Alaska] is necessary as a result of we’re validating that the method, procedures and gear that we’ve got can help the warfighter in austere arctic areas,” stated Tech Sgt. Laramie Grigsba, fifty fifth CBCS radio frequency transmission techniques specialist.
Whereas en route to northern Alaska, the crew of 15 Airmen made quite a few stops to check excessive frequency radios, a number of person goal system radios, a radio frequency monitoring system, and a Starlink cell WiFi’s connection and capabilities. It took solely moments to determine communication with counterparts situated within the decrease continental U.S. and the Canadian province of British Columbia.
“Exercising fight communications and community warfare techniques in harsh environments like Alaska prepares us to go wherever on the earth,” stated Workers Sgt. Isaac Remboldt, 52nd NWS RFMS analyst.
