Angel Thunder

Angel Thunder 2016 was one of the largest and most realistic joint service, multinational, interagency combat search and rescue exercise designed to provide training for personnel recovery assets using a variety of scenarios to simulate deployment conditions and contingencies. Personnel recovery forces will train through the full spectrum of personnel recovery capabilities with ground recovery personnel, air assets, special forces teams and federal agents. The exercise will be conducted May 6-May 19 and will execute training scenarios from the Pacific Ocean to Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz.

Angel Thunder provides personnel recovery and combat search and rescue training for combat aircrews, pararescue, intelligence personnel, battle managers and joint search and rescue center personnel.

Mission

ANGEL THUNDER is an ACC-sponsored, Joint National Training Capability Accredited/Certified Personnel Recovery exercise for Combat Air Force, Joint, Allied and Interagency participants. AT provides the most realistic PR training environment available to more than 2,700 USAF Rescue forces, as well as their Joint, Interagency, and International partners to engage in a variety of personnel recovery scenarios.

Angel Thunder Schedule

Angel Thunder 2017 is proposed to take place from May 6-19.

Angel Thunder Photos

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Angel Thunder News

Joint and Coalition forces train at the firing range

CRE employed for ANGEL THUNDER

Casualty Evacuation with F/7-158 Aviation Regiment

TCCC training provided during Exercise ANGEL THUNDER

58th RQS hones skills during Angel Thunder

Angel Thunder Planners Convene to Develop Annual Personnel Recovery Exercise

Photos: Angel Thunder 2013 - Aircraft Crash Exercise

Photos: Angel Thunder - White Mountains

Photos: Angel Thunder 2013 - High-Angle Rescue Training

Fusilier Kinne Speaks to Angel Thunder 13

Angel Thunder 2011 officially underway

Pararescuemen conduct joint training with University of Arizona Medical Center in Angel Thunder 2011 | VIDEO

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Angel Thunder Fact Sheets

   

              HH-60 Pave Hawk                           HC-130J Combat King II

    

                  C-130 Hercules                                         Pararescue

          

                  Guardian Angel                                   Sere Specialists

   

                    Flying Tigers

History



In 2006, Davis-Monthan conducted the first Angel Thunder as a base-specific exercise. The exercise's success and ACC's need for a personnel recovery exercise program prompted ACC to sponsor the event transitioning AT from a local exercise to an international training opportunity for all personnel recovery assets.

The overall Angel Thunder scenario will take place in California, Arizona, and New Mexico. The environment will provide the maximum amount of variety in training scenarios in a fictional Southwest country. Various exercises will take place within this setting, to include air-sea battle, security cooperation, interagency operations, and support to civil authorities focused on catastrophic incident search and rescue.

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Contact Us

For more information about Angel Thunder, please contact Public Affairs at 228-3406 or 355WGPA@us.af.mil.

For noise concerns, call the Flight Operations Concern Hotline at 228-5091.