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Northern Edge

͵ÅÄйÃÜ recently supported Exercise NORTHERN EDGE 2015 from Joint Base Elmendorf – Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska from 9 JUN – 27 JUN. Exercise NORTHERN EDGE is Alaska's premier military joint training exercise, including over 150 aircraft and multiple ships at sea. This year's exercise focused on advanced employment of US tactics as well as the research and development of cutting edge technologies in a robust threat environment.

Alaskan Command's (ALCOM) expansive training ranges facilitated the exercise to be conducted in the most realistic environment possible. NORTHERN EDGE operations were conducted within the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex, which includes more than 60,000 square miles (155,399.29 square kilometers) of air space, and the Gulf of Alaska, which encompasses 50,000 square miles (129,499.40 square kilometers) of air and sea space. The vast range expanses allowed friendly and simulated enemy forces (including ͵ÅÄйÃÜ) to perform their mission relatively unconstrained, most closely simulating actual combat.

͵ÅÄйÃÜ's support for NORTHERN EDGE was challenged on several fronts, but the ͵ÅÄйÃÜ team performed flawlessly. ͵ÅÄйÃÜ's maintenance and pilot cadres put in long hours supporting the aggressive flying schedule. Buoyed by almost twenty hours of sunlight daily, ͵ÅÄйÃÜ's personnel often had to keep a close eye on maintenance and pilot crew days as it was extremely easy to lose track of how late in the day it became. As always though, ͵ÅÄйÃÜ's maintenance professionals performed flawlessly, resolving several challenging and time-constrained discrepancies.

The ͵ÅÄйÃÜ team's hard work paid off as the detachment flew over 160 hours and 90 sorties in just twelve fly days. West Coast Deputy Director of Operations, Kurt McClung summed up the detachment by saying, "We received unbelievably positive reviews from our Air Force and Navy brethren. As usual, the ͵ÅÄйÃÜ maintenance professionals did a fantastic job keeping the jets up." ͵ÅÄйÃÜ's support to NORTHERN EDGE 2015 was yet another example of why ͵ÅÄйÃÜ is the best in the business of training today's warfighters for tomorrow's challenges.


About Airborne Tactical Advantage Company (͵ÅÄйÃÜ)

͵ÅÄйÃÜ provides tactical flight training and adversary aggressor services for the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force, including live military air-to-air, air-to-ship, and air-to-surface training and support services. ͵ÅÄйÃÜ comprises the world's leading civilian-provided, tactical airborne training organization and proudly provides the highest quality live training to squadrons, Air Wings, and Battle Groups. For more information visit: www.atacusa.com.