Large and small air forces need to work to coordinate for future cooperation. While recalling 1997's aeromedical evacuation exchange exercises with a U.S. C-130 crew near Cape Horn, Chile, as a readiness example, he described the Red Flag opportunity as a historic event for Chilean airmen. To do well in an emergency you must be capable of interoperability. We have a squadron of helicopters ferrying U.N. inspectors in Iraq. The idea was to know each other because we would be a team at Red Flag.
Airmen think the same.
At the end of the day they found out they were not so different.