Air Force Col. David Owens, 62nd Operations Group commander, Joint Base Lewis-McCord, Wash., Air Force mission commander for Combined Joint Operational Access Exercise 16-01, provides comments during a CJOAX joint mission briefing attended by Air Force C-17 Globemaster III and C-130 Hercules aircrew members from the 62nd Airlift Wing, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, 437th Airlift Wing, Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, 97th Air Mobility Wing, Altus AFB, Oklahoma, 517th Airlift Squadron, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, 19th Airlift Wing, Little Rock AFB, Arkansas,


Air Force Col. David Owens, 62nd Operations Group commander, Joint Base Lewis-McCord, Wash., Air Force mission commander for Combined Joint Operational Access Exercise 16-01, provides comments during a CJOAX joint mission briefing attended by Air Force C-17 Globemaster III and C-130 Hercules aircrew members from the 62nd Airlift Wing, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, 437th Airlift Wing, Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, 97th Air Mobility Wing, Altus AFB, Oklahoma, 517th Airlift Squadron, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, 19th Airlift Wing, Little Rock AFB, Arkansas, and 317th Airlift Group, Dyess AFB, Texas, and Army commanders from the 1st Brigade Combat Team, and 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, , Oct. 26, 2015, at Pope Army Airfield, CJOAX is a seven-day integrated effort between the 82nd Airborne Division and its Air Force partners. The purpose of the readiness exercise is to train, assess and certify the combat readiness of the forcible entry component of the Global Response Force, and illustrates the critical partnership between Mobility Air Forces and the Army. ( Air Force photo/Marvin Krause)


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