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Red flag is the Air Force's premier 

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large Force exercise . And it's our 

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opportunity to fight wars without 

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having to actually fight wars so that 

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we're prepared . Babe Eagle is the cap 

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under red flag addressing how the air 

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force does a combat employment . So ace 

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is important . You'll read about it in 

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the national security strategy , 

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documents , national strategy . Our 

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main operating bases in the current 

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environment against the peer adversary 

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cannot be assumed to be protected . And 

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so you have to distribute your 

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operations across as many locations as 

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you can to provide surround building 

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for your forces and not depend on one 

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secure site . And that's where Edwards 

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comes in . So really our only role in 

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the exercise is to provide boss based 

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operational support to F-35s that are 

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operating from a not fixed main 

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operating base . So Edwards is 

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particularly ideal for an exercise like 

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Bamboo Eagle because it's trying to 

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address how we're going to operate in 

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an environment . And when we have the 

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real estate and the airspace that we do , 

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we have the maneuverability available 

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to us to actually have all of these 

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partners in the same place .