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  • Rally in the Valley 2020 Exercise Recap

    Rally in the Valley Exercise Recap Aug. 22-23, Senior Leadership Seminar and Summersville Airdrops (0:00-2:15) Aug. 24, Aircraft Takeoffs and Mountain Top Airdrops (2:15-4:00) Aug. 25, Dirt Landing Zone and Engines Running On-Load/Off-Load (4:00-5:20)
  • A C-130H Hercules assigned to the 908th Airlift Wing, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, taxis on the flightline on Aug. 23, 2020, at Youngstown Air Reserve Station in Vienna, Ohio. Five Air Force Reserve units from the 22nd Air Force and a West Virginia Air National Guard unit participated in Rally in the Valley, a multi-day C-130 training exercise under a distributed operations concept, Aug. 22-25, 2020. The exercise included cargo drops, high-altitude paratrooper drops, task force resupply and personnel extraction.

    22nd Air Force: Rally in the Valley

    The morning fog burns off to reveal the Appalachian Mountains. The Gauley River glimmers with the rising sun as eight shadows drag across the West Virginia landscape accompanied by a low rumble. It was meant to be a small exercise, but necessity turned it into something more.
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