DVIDS – Information – 4th Fighter Wing bedsdown for train RAZOR TALON

SEYMOUR JOHNSON AFB, N.C. – RAZOR TALON 23-1, an agile fight employment centered train, kicked-off July 24, at Seymour Johnson Air Drive Base, N.C., and varied areas all through the southeast area.

“Throughout RAZOR TALON, the 4th Fighter Wing will function because the 4th Air Expeditionary Wing,” mentioned Capt. Sebastian Kaiser, RAZOR TALON train director. “This can take a look at our capacity to generate fight air energy whereas persevering with to maneuver, maneuver, and maintain the 4th AEW and subordinate pressure parts in a dynamic and contested atmosphere.”

All through the train the 4th AEW will command and management a number of plane to incorporate Air Fight Command’s F-15E Strike Eagles, 4th FW, E-3 Sentry from the 963rd and 964 Airborne Air Management Squadrons, Tinker Air Drive Base, Okla., T-38 Talon from the first FW, Joint Base Langley Eustis, Va., Air Drive International Strike Command’s B-52 Stratofortress, 2nd Bomb Wing, Barksdale AFB, La., Air Mobility Command’s C-17 Globemaster III from 436th Airlift Wing, Dover AFB, De., C-130J Tremendous Hercules, nineteenth AW, Little Rock AFB, Ark., Air Drive Reserve Command’s C-17 445th AW, KC-46A Pegasus from the 916th Air Refueling Wing, Seymour Johnson AFB, KC-135 Stratotankers from the 434th ARW, Grissom AFB, Ind., and the 459th ARW, JB Andrews, Va., and the Air Nationwide Guard’s KC-135 from the a hundred and first ARW, Bangor AFB, Maine., and 121st ARW, Rickenbacker AFB, Ohio.

Moreover, the 4th AEW will combine with Draken Worldwide’s A-4K Skyhawks and Mirage F1, U.S. Marine Corps’ Marine Plane Group 14, Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Level, N.C., and MAG-31 from MCAS Beaufort, S.C., and the U.S. Military’s 1st Battalion, seventh Air Protection Artillery from Ft. Liberty, N.C., and AMC’s 621st Contingency Response Wing, JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., to ship fight air energy all whereas working from dispersed location with contested logistics.

RAZOR TALON 23-1 offers a chance for Continental U.S. North American Aerospace Protection Command (NORAD) Area personnel from the Japanese and Western Air Protection Sectors to proceed to optimize their command and management procedures in help of the defence of North America.

Imagery of the train is publicly obtainable by the Protection Visible Info Distribution Service (DVIDS) on the following hyperlink: www.dvidshub.web/characteristic/RazorTalon23.

Any questions on RAZOR TALON will be directed to 4th FW Public Affairs at [email protected].