The Guam International Airport Authority announced on July 10, that the facilities at the A.B. Won Pat International Airport, Guam has been designated as a support location for Resolute Force Pacific 2025.
REFORPAC 25 is a Department of the U.S. Air Force level exercises, according to GIAA, and will span across the Pacific to include Guam, Hawaii, and Japan as well as international airspace.
A.B. Won Pat International Airport. Photo by Skyler Obispo
The Air Force said in a July 8 release that department level exercises involve more than 350 joint and coalition aircraft alongside more than 12,000 personnel.
The exercises will involve the U.S. and multinational and joint partners which include Canada, South Korea, Japan, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
“Activities will highlight critical skills such as aircraft flightline operations, munitions loading, hot-pit rapid refueling, combat search and rescue, distributed logistics and multilateral air-to-air refueling,” the Air Force said.
John M. Quinata, GIAA’s executive manager, said that the airport’s runways and taxiways support not only commercial aviation, but also serves as a divert location for civilian and military operations.
The airport said that commercial operations are not expected to be disrupted from the exercises and that the community should anticipate increased military air activity and noise from July 12 to July 29. mbj
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