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Smaller, Rapidly Deployable Communications Gear Emerges as Lessons Learned from USAFE Exercise

Smaller, Rapidly Deployable Communications Gear Emerges as Lessons Learned from USAFE Exercise
U.S. Air Force Capt. Joseph Tomassi, left, 351st Air Refueling Squadron pilot, and Capt. Katharine Kopinski, 351st ARS pilot, perform preflight checks on a KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft before a refueling mission during exercise Castle Forge at Royal Air Force Mildenhall, England on Nov. 1 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The need for smaller, rapidly fielded U.S. Air Force communications gear was a key lesson that emerged from last month's Castle Forge exercise in which U.S. Air Forces Europe (USAFE)-Air Forces Africa tested out the Air Force's agile combat employment concepts to use U.S. and allied airpower from dispersed locations to defend NATO countries in the Black Sea region--an area that has become a flash point due to Russian revanchism in Ukraine. While USAFE had done its own agile combat…

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