ALPENA â Exercise Mobility Guardian 2021, the Air Forceâs largest and longest exercise ensuring readiness to move military personnel and equipment in combat operations, is scheduled to begin at Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center on May 15.
More than 1,800 exercise participants will operate 18 mobility aircraft at six locations in Michigan and Wisconsin through May 27 in order to validate Air Mobility Commandâs readiness to provide Rapid Global Mobility for America and the Joint Force.
Additional exercise locations include Oscoda-Wurtsmith Airport, Michigan and Volk Field, Wisconsin, with Air National Guard units from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio flying in the exercise.
The biennial exercise includes AMCâs first large-scale integration of cutting-edge concepts to advance warfighting capabilities. Multi-Capable Mobility Airmen will demonstrate speed and agility while enabling refueling and re-arming of fighter aircraft in an austere location. Airc
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TOP: Its twin set of 375-pound rotor blades drooping like an old ceiling fan, a massive CH-47 Chinook Army National Guard transport helicopter hulks on a snowy runway in Alpena on Thursday as Capt. Charles Auer explains how the Winter Strike training held this week at the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center prepares military personnel for overseas missions.
ALPENA Helicopters have had a busy week at the Alpena Combat Readiness Center.
Two Army National Guard battalions out of Illinois and U.S. Marine Corps squadrons from North Carolina converged at the CRTC this week to practice helicopter maneuvers as part of Winter Strike, a joint military exercise.