I'm amazed and surprised about the scale the Air National Guard puts in to this exercise.
I count already fighter and transport aircraft deployed from 20 different ANG units next to transporters and tankers from another 5-10 ANG-units in support.
Absolutely impressive!
But also an question what is the exact purpose? I can't see it happening the ANG go to war alone, but only as part of the USAF in total. So why demonstrate the ANG can deploy on it's own?
I'm just wondering
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And happy to see (hopefully) many different aircraft of so many units from next week on.
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