JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- Red Flag-Alaska 25-2, a Pacific Air Forces sponsored exercise, is scheduled for June 12-27, 2025, with primary flight operations over the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex.
Red Flag-Alaska is designed to provide realistic training in a simulated combat environment. Approximately 1500 service members are expected to fly, maintain and support more than 70 aircraft from 35 units during this iteration of the exercise.
Service members from the United States and three partner nations are scheduled to participate, enabling them to exchange tactics, techniques and procedures while improving interoperability within the multilateral force. Most participating aircraft will operate from Eielson Air Force Base and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska.
Red Flag-Alaska training spans from individual skills to complex, large-scale joint engagements. The exercises can be adapted to integrate a mix of forces into a realistic threat environment utilizing more than 77,000 square miles of airspace in the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex, which is the largest combat training range in the world.