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        Policy UpdatesNewsroomReoptimizationBIOGRAPHIESAF Senior Leaders      U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Andrew Garcia, a Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 323 fixed wing aircraft head plane captain, Marine Corps Air Station, Miramar, California, communicates with a pilot before the launch of an F/A-18C Hornet during Red Flag-Nellis 24-2 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, March 11, 2024.U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Andrew Garcia, a Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 323 fixed wing aircraft head plane captain, communicates with a pilot before the launch of an F/A-18C Hornet during exercise Red Flag-Nellis 24-2 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., March 11, 2024. Exercise participants conducted a variety of scenarios, including defensive counterair, offensive counterair suppression of enemy air defenses and offensive counterair interdiction. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jordan McCoy)
            
            
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Major Nathan Persons, left, and Capt. Annie Braun, Weapon Systems Officer, assigned to the 366th Fighter Wing, Mountain Home Air Force Base (AFB), Idaho, depart an F-15E Strike Eagle after finishing a Red Flag-Nellis 24-2 mission at Nellis AFB, Nevada, March 18, 2024.Maj. Nathan Persons, and Capt. Annie Braun, Weapon Systems Officer, depart an F-15E Strike Eagle after finishing an exercise Red Flag-Nellis 24-2 mission at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., March 18, 2024. Red Flag exercises provide aircrews the experience of multiple, intensive air combat sorties in the safety of a training environment. (U.S. Air Force photo by William R. Lewis)
            
            
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Members of the Royal Netherlands Air Force prepare to launch an F-35A Lightning II during Red Flag-Nellis 24-2 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, March 13, 2024.Members of the Royal Netherlands Air Force prepare to launch an F-35A Lightning II during exercise Red Flag-Nellis 24-2 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., March 13, 2024. The presence of the F-35s offers the U.S., allies, and partners a versatile and highly capable system, enhancing collective defense measures while reinforcing the NATO alliance’s commitment to leveraging top-tier military capabilities for regional security and deterrence. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jose Miguel T. Tamondong)
            
            
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U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Andrew Garcia, a Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 323 fixed wing aircraft head plane captain, Marine Corps Air Station, Miramar, California, communicates with a pilot before the launch of an F/A-18C Hornet during Red Flag-Nellis 24-2 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, March 11, 2024.U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Andrew Garcia, a Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 323 fixed wing aircraft head plane captain, communicates with a pilot before the launch of an F/A-18C Hornet during exercise Red Flag-Nellis 24-2 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., March 11, 2024. Exercise participants conducted a variety of scenarios, including defensive counterair, offensive counterair suppression of enemy air defenses and offensive counterair interdiction. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jordan McCoy)
            
            
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        Major Nathan Persons, left, and Capt. Annie Braun, Weapon Systems Officer, assigned to the 366th Fighter Wing, Mountain Home Air Force Base (AFB), Idaho, depart an F-15E Strike Eagle after finishing a Red Flag-Nellis 24-2 mission at Nellis AFB, Nevada, March 18, 2024.Maj. Nathan Persons, and Capt. Annie Braun, Weapon Systems Officer, depart an F-15E Strike Eagle after finishing an exercise Red Flag-Nellis 24-2 mission at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., March 18, 2024. Red Flag exercises provide aircrews the experience of multiple, intensive air combat sorties in the safety of a training environment. (U.S. Air Force photo by William R. Lewis)
            
            
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        Members of the Royal Netherlands Air Force prepare to launch an F-35A Lightning II during Red Flag-Nellis 24-2 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, March 13, 2024.Members of the Royal Netherlands Air Force prepare to launch an F-35A Lightning II during exercise Red Flag-Nellis 24-2 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., March 13, 2024. The presence of the F-35s offers the U.S., allies, and partners a versatile and highly capable system, enhancing collective defense measures while reinforcing the NATO alliance’s commitment to leveraging top-tier military capabilities for regional security and deterrence. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jose Miguel T. Tamondong)
            
            
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Red Flag-Nellis 24-2 shapes the future of air combatPublished March 27, 2024
                    
                    By Senior Airman Jordan McCoy
                    
                    
                    57th Wing Public Affairs
            **NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. (AFNS) --**During exercise Red Flag 24-2, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Marine Corps personnel trained alongside the Royal Netherlands Air Force from March 11-24.

This exercise presented a prime opportunity to forge pathways for collaboration with joint services and NATO countries. It showcased the cutting-edge capabilities of fifth-generation **F-35 Lightning II**'s and sophisticated threat replication techniques.Nellis is the best place on Earth to simulate ‘tomorrow’s’ fight''
    Col. David Stamps, 366th Operations Group commander
 “Operations with our fifth-generation platform, the F-35, are critical to us,” said Air Commodore Johan van Deventer, commander of the Royal Netherlands Air Force Air Combat Command. “It’s an information platform that uses forward sensors to exchange that information, and it can go to a high-threat area. This is the place where we can practice that together with our coalition partner, the U.S., and we need to do that in the high-end fight. That’s why we come to Nellis.”

A U.S. Navy EA-18G Growler takes off for a Red Flag-Nellis 24-2 night mission at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, March 18, 2024.
            
            
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“Integrating these capabilities is essential to deterring our adversaries and assuring allies,” said Col. David Stamps, 366th Operations Group commander. “Red Flag 24-2 affords us the opportunity to fully integrate the joint force with our NATO allies to solve the most complex tactical problems in a peacetime environment. We plan together, fly together, and debrief together as one team across all combat specialties.”Staff Sgt Cody VanNurden, a crew chief assigned to the 857th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, conducts pre-flight checks of an F-16C Fighting Falcon prior to a Red Flag-Nellis 24-2 mission at Nellis AFB, Nevada, March 13, 2024.
            
            
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Amidst the expansive Nevada Test and Training Range, NATO partners integrated seamlessly with U.S. joint services. This exercise marked one of the most extensive fifth-generation Red Flag exercises to include NATO and joint partners.

“Nellis is the best place on Earth to simulate ‘tomorrow’s’ fight,” Stamps said. “The professionalism of the “Aggressors” is unmatched, and they are essential to the development of integrated Blue Force tactics. The dedication of all the services maintenance teams proves no one on the planet generates combat airpower better than the United States and our allies and partners.”U.S. Air Force Warfare Center 



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