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Published Aug. 21, 2025 Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) -- The Department of the Air Force recently concluded its Department-Level Exercise series, a month-long series of exercises conducted across the Indo-Pacific, including Resolute Force Pacific, Resolute Space, Mobility Guardian 2025, Emerald Warrior and Bamboo Eagle 25-3. The exercises enhanced readiness and interoperability with allies and partners, while providing critical lessons learned for future operations. The Department of the Air Force is focused on becoming a stronger, more lethal deterrent force, said Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink. The way we will fight in future conflicts is constantly evolving, and this month-long exercise series shows we are investing in readiness and training to meet national security challenges. Our Airmen and Guardians were able to rapidly deploy forces, achieve space superiority, ensure sustained logistics in contested environments and effectively work alongside our allies and partners. U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Trinity Parker, a loadmaster with the 22nd Airlift Squadron, Travis Air Force Base, Calif., unloads cargo off a C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, during the Air Forces 2025 Department-Level Exercise series, July 14, 2025. The DLE strengthens and demonstrates the U.S. Air Forces ability to reach theater at speed and scale, sustain operations, and rapidly pivot to any theater of operation at a moments notice, while maintaining the strategic initiative. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Dalton Williams) Photo Details / Download Hi-Res U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Thomas Hansford, 1st Combat Camera Squadron aerial combat camera journeyman, documents a mission on a U.S. Air Force MC-130J Commando II during Emerald Warrior 25.2 in California, July 30, 2025. The multi-domain training is part of the Department of the Air Forces first-in-a-generation Department-Level-Exercise series, demonstrating the capacity to execute and sustain advanced operations in contested, dynamic environments. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Emily Farnsworth) Photo Details / Download Hi-Res As part of the units participation in the Department-Level Exercise (DLE) series focused on the Indo-Pacific region, Airmen assigned to the 153rd Airlift Wing, Wyoming Air National Guard, load gear onto a C-130 Hercules at the Wyoming Air National Guard Base in Cheyenne, Wyo., July 7, 2025. The 153rd Airlift Wing operates the C-130 Hercules, conducting cargo transport, personnel movement, and aeromedical evacuation missions in support of global air mobility operations. During the Department-Level Exercise series, Air Mobility Command assets enabled the Department of the Air Forces capacity to execute rapid force flow, Agile Combat Employment, and logistics in contested environments. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Jon Alderman) Photo Details / Download Hi-Res The exercise series accomplished many important objectives including a high rate of sortie and cargo generation in contested environments around the globe, complex training with partners and allies, integrating space capabilities across air, land, maritime and cyber domains, as well as large scale Agile Combat Employment with a focus on command and control. Exercise scenarios tested critical elements of DAF operations, and lessons learned were compiled to improve mission planning and future operations. As intended, we stressed the system by having the largest scale exercise in the Pacific since the Cold War, said Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin. To have the exercise is one thing, but to fail forward, move fast and learn from our mistakes is another. We validated our ability to sustain operations, deploy and redeploy at scale, and now must follow through on lessons learned. This evolution, implementation and iteration prepare us for the future fight. The Air Forces lethality - and that of the entire Joint Force - depends on the Space Forces ability to achieve space superiority. Resolute Space put that ability to the test in the largest service-led exercise in Space Force history. The Space Force delivered at an unprecedented scale alongside our allies and partners, said Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman. During Resolute Space, Guardians trained against realistic, threat-informed aggressor forces while also supporting nine other concurrent exercises around the world. It was a clear validation of our readiness, combat credibility and commitment to deliver peace through strength. U.S. Airmen assigned to Air Force Special Operations Command onloads cargo onto a U.S. Air Force MC-130J Commando II during Emerald Warrior 25.2 at Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma, July 30, 2025. Part of the Department of the Air Forces Department-Level Exercise series, Emerald Warrior enhances the combat readiness of Air Commandos forces by training to match the speed and scale of complex operations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Emily Farnsworth) Photo Details / Download Hi-Res A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor is marshalled by Senior Airman Dylan Gurski, a crew chief, both are deployed with the 3rd Air Expeditionary Wing, during exercise Resolute Force Pacific 2025 in Tinian, North Mariana Islands, July 17, 2025. REFORPAC is part of a first-in-a-generation Department-Level Exercise series, employing more than 400 Joint and coalition aircraft and more than 12,000 members at more than 50 locations across 3,000 miles. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman J. Michael Pena) Photo Details / Download Hi-Res A U.S. Air Force Air Commando assigned to Air Force Special Operations Command, oversees a forward arming and refueling point operation in California, during Emerald Warrior 25.2, July 28, 2025. Our Air Commandos continue to pathfind innovative solutions, while leveraging advanced technologies to solve operational and tactical problems. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Thomas Hansford) Photo
