Bamboo Eagle: ‘Upping our game’ for Great Power Competition
Royal Air Force Wing Commander Richard Kinniburgh, 505th Test and Training Group deputy commander and RAF exchange officer, left, and Royal Australian Air Force Squadron Leader Sean Bedford, 505th Training Squadron director of operations and RAAF exchange officer, right, discuss integration into Bamboo Eagle 24-3’s air operations center at the 613th AOC, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Oahu, Aug. 8, 2024. Exercise Bamboo Eagle 24-3 executed live-fly operations in the eastern Pacific and a simultaneous 24-hour live, virtual, and constructive rolling scenario, tackling issues involving distributed command and control, communications degradation, logistics and sustainment challenges, and tyranny of distance. (Photo cropped to focus on subjects.) (U.S. Air Force photo)