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Operations and Exercises

The Pacific Air Forces area of responsibility is unique for many reasons.  Covering more than 16 time zones, 36 countries and 105 million square miles means the Airmen of PACAF must always be ready to respond anywhere at any time.  To ensure their readiness, PACAF conducts several exercises every year.  You can find information about those exercises here.
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Valiant Shield
The Valiant Shield series of exercises focus on integrated joint training among U.S. military forces with the goal of enabling real-world proficiency in sustaining joint forces and detecting, locating, tracking and engaging units at sea, in the air, on land and in cyberspace in response to range of mission areas. Throughout this exercise, safety and the environment are top priorities and were significantly considered when planning conferences started for the exercise in 2006.

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Pacific Lifeline
Pacific Lifeline is a total force humanitarian assistance and disaster relief exercise led by 13th Air Force.  Pacific Lifeline provides a training environment to test Pacific Air Forces' ability to respond and support humanitarian and natural disaster relief operations within the Pacific Region.
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Red Flag-Alaska is a series of Pacific Air Forces commander-directed field training exercises for U.S. forces.  It provides joint offensive counter-air, interdiction, close air support and large force employment training in a simulated combat environment. 

The exercises are conducted on the Pacific Alaskan Range Complex with air operations flown out of Eielson and Elmendorf Air Force bases in Alaska.

Red Flag-Alaska evolved out of Cooperative Cope Thunder.  Information about this past exercise can be found here.


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Northern Edge
Northern Edge is Alaska's premier joint training exercise designed to practice operations, techniques and procedures, and enhance interoperability among the services. Over 5,000 participants from all the services, Airman, Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Coast Guardsmen from active duty, reserve and national guard units are involved.

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