{"id":30444,"date":"2023-10-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=30444"},"modified":"2023-10-08T06:42:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T06:42:06","slug":"us-colombia-soar-together-angel-de-los-andes-relampago-vii-bolster-interoperability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=30444","title":{"rendered":"US, Colombia soar together: \u00c1ngel de los Andes, Rel\u00e1mpago VII bolster interoperability"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>                \u201cIt\u2019s good for us to share tactics and techniques with each other to learn from each other,\u201d Schiller said. \u201cWe have very different mission sets, the F-15 to the KFIR, but there\u2019s still a lot of commonality and similarities between the two air frames\u2026so it\u2019s easy for us to fly in the same airspace and operate as a cohesive team to achieve a common goal.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As an aeromedical evacuation training exercise, \u00c1ngel de los Andes aimed to save lives. During the exercise\u2019s simulated earthquake scenario, U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.af.mil\/About-Us\/Fact-Sheets\/Display\/Article\/1529726\/c-17-globemaster-iii\/\"><strong>C-17<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.af.mil\/About-Us\/Fact-Sheets\/Display\/Article\/104508\/hh-60g-pave-hawk\/\"><strong>HH-60<\/strong><\/a> aircraft flew alongside Colombian helicopters, transporting and treating 50 patients in a large-scale recovery effort.<\/p>\n<p>In another exercise scenario, combined teams of special forces parachuted into simulated enemy territory to rescue friendly troops from danger. Flying aboard an HH-60 helicopter, a Colombian and U.S. crew worked side-by-side, conducting river rescues, overcoming difficult terrain and breaking through the language barrier to succeed in their mission, said Colombian AF Maj. C\u00e9sar Trivino, a <a href=\"https:\/\/asc.army.mil\/web\/portfolio-item\/black-hawk-uhhh-60\/\"><strong>UH-60<\/strong><\/a> helicopter pilot who participated in \u00c1ngel de los Andes.<\/p>\n<p>With scenarios unfolding in multiple locations throughout Colombia, overhead imagery was key to assuring safe and accurate exercise missions.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Forces Southern space team partnered with U.S. Space Command\u2019s Joint Task Force-Space Defense Commercial Operations cell for Space Domain Awareness to provide overhead imagery of helicopter landing zones, satellite overflight information and space weather prognostics to aid in decision-making, planning and execution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s good for us to share tactics and techniques with each other to learn from each other,\u201d Schiller said. \u201cWe have very different mission sets, the F-15 to the KFIR, but there\u2019s still a lot of commonality and similarities between the two air frames\u2026so it\u2019s easy for us to fly in the same airspace and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30447,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30444\/revisions\/30447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}