JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- Red Flag-Alaska 26-1, a Pacific Air Forces sponsored exercise designed to provide realistic training in a simulated combat environment, is scheduled to begin on April 16th, with primary flight operations over the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex and is scheduled to run through May 1st.
U.S. Air Force service members will fly, maintain and support aircraft from several units during this iteration of the exercise enabling them to hone tactics, techniques and procedures while improving interoperability with fellow Airmen. Most aircraft will be based at, and fly 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 various forces into a realistic threat environment using the approximate 120,000 square miles of airspace in the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex, which is the largest combat training range in the world.