Exercise Resolute Force Pacific Now Underway

The US Pacific Air Force (PACAF) along with multinational and joint partners are undertaking Exercise Resolute Force Pacific 2025 (REFORPAC 2025) in the Indo-Pacific.

REFORPAC 2025 is the US Air Force’s largest Pacific contingency-response exercise and will conclude on 8 August. The exercise is part of the Department of the Air Force’s Department-Level Exercise series.

Over the course of the exercises, PACAF will demonstrate its ability to rapidly disperse thousands of US military personnel and associated equipment across the region. “We must be ready to operate in austere conditions, with degraded networks, and through disruptions to sustainment chains. Our forces must be self-sufficient, mobile, and capable of rapid adaptation,” PACAF commander Gen. Kevin Schneider said in an Air Force release.

REFORPAC 2025 will take place in multiple locations in the Pacific, including Hawaii, Guam, Japan and international airspace. “The exercise conditions during REFORPAC will require Airmen to move fast, fight under attack, and sustain combat operations in ways we haven’t done in decades. Our ability to fight and prevail in any contested environment depends on our team’s ability to generate aircraft sorties while under attack and often far away from our main operating bases….” Schneider stated.

REFORPAC 2025 will witness participating forces training on aircraft flightline operations, munitions loading, hot-pit rapid refueling, combat search and rescue, distributed logistics and multilateral air-to-air refueling. It will also test how well PACAF along with its partners will be able adapt to challenging environments yet remain fully mission capable.