706th Fighter Squadron trains with international partners

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NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. --  Pilots in the 706th Fighter Squadron helped wrap up another Red Flag exercise here Mar. 16.  Red Flag 12-3 hosted active-duty, Reserve and Guard Airmen and more than 70 aircraft from across the United States. Additionally, the Royal Australian Air Force brought F-18s and the Royal Air Force of the United Kingdom brought GR-4s to participate in the three-week event. Red Flag is a realistic combat training exercise involving the air forces of the United States and its allies. The exercise is organized at Nellis Air Force Base and hosted north of Las Vegas on the Nevada Test and Training Range--the U.S. Air Force's premier military training area with more than 12,000 square miles of airspace and 2.9 million acres of land. With 1,900 possible targets, realistic threat systems and an opposing enemy force that cannot be replicated anywhere else in the world, Nellis and the NTTR are the home of a "peacetime battlefield," providing combat air forces with the ability to train to fight together, survive together and win together. Reservists from the 706th FS are embedded into Nellis Air Force Base's 57th Wing as part of the Air Force's Total Force Integration initiative, training side-by-side their active-duty counterparts on a daily basis.