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        Policy UpdatesNewsroomReoptimizationBIOGRAPHIESAF Senior Leaders      Men standPanther Storm 2: Advancing Rapid Global Mobility
                        
                        
                        Paratroopers with 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division board C-130Js in preparation to execute a tactical night jump during Exercise Panther Storm II at Fort Bragg, N.C., Nov 3, 2020. Panther Storm is a joint forces operation combining Airlift from the 19th Airlift Wing from Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas and 317th Airlift Wing at Dyess AFB, Texas working with the 82nd simulating and testing the Paratrooper’s abilities to perform in contested environments. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jeremy McGuffin)
                
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                        Senior Airman Dominic Crowell, 43rd Air Mobility Squadron areal porter, secures HMVEES onto a C-130J Super Hercules for combat offload training during Exercise Panther Storm 2 at Fort Bragg, N.C., Nov 4, 2020. Panther Storm is a joint forces operation combining Airlift from the 19th Airlift Wing from Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas and Dyess AFB, Texas working with the Army's 82nd Airborne simulating and testing the Paratrooper’s abilities to perform in contested environments. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jeremy McGuffin)
                
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                        Airmen 1st Class Lee Berkbuegler gives a thumbs up to Senior Airman Dimitrious Carden, 61st Airlift Squadron loadmasters, as they load HMVEES onto their C-130J Super Hercules for combat offload training during Exercise Panther Storm 2 at Fort Bragg, N.C., Nov 4, 2020. Panther Storm is a joint forces operation combining Airlift from the 19th Airlift Wing from Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas and Dyess AFB, Texas working with the Army's 82nd Airborne simulating and testing the Paratrooper’s abilities to perform in contested environments. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jeremy McGuffin)
                
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        Men standA paratrooper with 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division waits to execute a tactical night jump during Exercise Panther Storm II at Fort Bragg, N.C., Nov 3, 2020. Panther Storm is a joint forces operation combining airlift from the 19th Airlift Wing from Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark. and 317th Airlift Wing at Dyess AFB, Texas working with the 82nd Airborne Division simulating and testing the paratrooper’s abilities to perform in contested environments. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jeremy McGuffin)
                
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                        Paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division exit the doors of a C-130J from Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas for their decent onto the Holland Drop Zone during Exercise Panther Storm II, Fort Bragg, N.C., Nov. 3, 2020. Panther Storm is a Joint Readiness exercise testing Mobility Air Force’s ability for large force employment insertion of anywhere in the world in under 18 hours. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jeremy McGuffin)
                
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Panther Storm II: Advancing rapid global mobilityPublished Nov. 12, 2020
                    
                    By Staff Sgt. Jeremy McGuffin
                    
                    
                    19th Airlift Wing Public Affairs
            **LITTLE ROCK AIR FORCE BASE, Ark. (AFNS) --**Multiple**C-130J Super Hercules** crews from the 19th Airlift Wing from **Little Rock Air Force Base**, Arkansas and 317th Airlift Wing at **Dyess AFB**, Texas partnered with the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division for a Joint Forcible Entry exercise Nov. 3-6 at **Pope Army Airfield**, North Carolina.To ensure continued projection of the joint force and strategic deterrence, Exercise Panther Storm II allowed for these units to tackle**Air Mobility Command**’s priority of developing mobility Airmen and advancing warfighting capabilities.Panther Storm is a joint training exercise between AMC and the 82nd Airborne Division which enables a brigade combat team to execute a joint forcible entry in support of subsequent large-scale combat operations.
“Our goal was to establish joint integration training between the 19th AW, 317th AW and the Army to exercise a large-force infiltration into a contested area,” said Capt. Shawn Riley, 40th Airlift Squadron, and Panther Storm II Mission Planning Cell chief. “Every opportunity to integrate and improve our capability to the joint force is a welcomed one.”
This training event validated the C-130 as the prime transport to rapidly project combat power by airdropping more than 1,660 personnel and 200,000 pounds of heavy air-dropped vehicles, equipment, ammunition and artillery into a simulated austere location.
“Our biggest challenge was making sure we were fully rigged and ready to perform varying types of airdrops,” said Staff Sgt. Micah Fernandez, 41st AS loadmaster. “With the sheer amount of drops we conducted in just two days, we tested our ability to deliver mobility requirements at the speed and scale required to defeat any adversary.”
In an ongoing effort to enhance tactics and interoperability, this exercise maximizes full-spectrum readiness to operate more quickly and with greater agility in and through contested environments for the nation to compete, deter and win.
“We took four aircraft from Little Rock AFB and combined it with eight from Dyess AFB, and executed our mission flawlessly,” said Maj. Chris Richardson, 61st AS pilot and Little Rock AFB crews’ mission commander. “We showed the world through this show of force that we could execute a large Joint Forcible Entry for the Army anywhere in the world whenever needed, no matter the constraints.”USAF 



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