FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, wash. -- Airmen assigned to the 92nd Air Refueling Wing conducted exercise Titan Fury 24-7 at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, September 9-13, 2024.
During the exercise, Airmen demonstrated how various support activities contribute to generating and mobilizing KC-135 Stratotankers including security, maintenance, services, fuel operations among many others.
“We are testing our maximum capabilities in order to support our combatant commander’s direction for the refueling wing,” said Master Sgt. Benjamin Woelfel, 92nd Logistics Readiness Squadron operations and compliance superintendent. “There is not a function within LRS that doesn’t have a part to play to make Titan Fury a success.”
For the first time, 92nd LRS Airmen were arming aircrew. The new standardized training was created by the 92nd LRS which focused on practicing increased inventory control and reviewing both the do not arm process and weapons transportation procedures. The training aims to establish muscle memory for air crew, 92nd LRS and 92nd Security Forces Squadron Airmen in the event these actions need to be completed in a real-world scenario.
Titan Fury is set to evaluate Team Fairchild’s Total Force ability to validate proficiency training and meet specific mission requirements. 92 ARW’s support in the U.S. nuclear enterprise allows for training to ensure and enhance the readiness, effectiveness, and safety of America’s strategic deterrence force.
Master Sgt. William Jorgenson, 92nd SFS operations superintendent, explains how defenders provide installation security, law enforcement and military working dog services throughout the exercise. Their priority is ensuring assets and Airmen remain secured at all times.
While defenders are maintaining around-the-clock base security, 92nd Force Support Squadron Airmen assigned to the dining facility continuously cook to provide healthy and nutrient dense meals for the aircrew.
“Our role during Titan Fury is to provide nutritional sustainment to quickly support those crews that don’t have the luxury of time,” said Tech. Sgt. Kyle Murphy, 92nd FSS Warrior Dining Facility manager. “The crews that we support have to be able to respond at a moment’s notice. By making food readily available and convenient, it’s one less thing they have to worry about.”
The tanker force is a critical enabler of U.S. power projection because homeland defense, strategic deterrence, global strike, rapid global mobility, and the Joint Force all require the Air Force’s air refueling capabilities.
92nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Airmen are responsible for maintaining the highest level of aircraft readiness, ensuring that the Air Force can meet its operational and mission requirements.
Master Sgt. Christopher Hart, 92nd AMXS production superintendent, explains “Titan Fury, and exercises like it, allow aircraft maintenance and operations to demonstrate the ability to generate aircraft and respond at a moment’s notice to maintain a posture of constant readiness.”
The 92nd ARW’s KC-135 fleet serves as the backbone of Air Mobility Command’s air refueling capabilities around the world because of its ability to extend global reach and project U.S. air power. As the world’s Super Tanker Wing, Fairchild continues to refine tactics, techniques and procedures oriented on the Mobility Air Force’s full range of capabilities needed for today’s steady state operations and tomorrow’s high-end fight.
In his posture statement to the Senate Armed Services Committee, February 29, 2024, U.S. Air Force Gen. Anthony J. Cotton, commander of USSTRATCOM, explains that to enable various global operations across the globe, we must acquire and modernize more tankers.
“With the Joint Force depending on Fairchilds’s ability to project global reach, our Airmen are focused on ensuring we are always primed for nuclear generation and deterrence operations,” said Col. Chad Cisewski, 92nd Air Refueling Wing commander. “As America’s Super Tanker Wing, we carry the honor of ensuring that the KC-135 weapons system, and the Airmen who support it are ready to fuel today and tomorrow’s fight.”