The 2017 edition of Eagle Resolve, the premier exercise for US forces to train with partner nations around the Persian Gulf, concluded Monday. About 100 airmen participated in the exercise, which began on March 19 in Kuwait, according to an email statement from US Central Command. This year’s Eagle Resolve “included a command post exercise, field training exercise, and senior leader seminar.” The training focused on “responding to asymmetric threats” and included scenarios dealing with “air defense concepts, border security operations, [and] counterterrorism operations and procedures.”
The Pentagon’s new counter-drone task force will play a direct role in arming Airmen with new weapons to defend Air Force agile combat employment, or ACE, air bases in austere locations against enemy drone attacks, the director of Joint Interagency Task Force 401 said Oct. 14.
