REFORPAC 2025: International team conducts Air Force’s largest Pacific contingency-response exercise

U.S. Pacific Air Forces, multinational and joint partners will conduct exercise Resolute Force Pacific, or REFORPAC, July 10-Aug. 8, across several locations throughout the Pacific as part of the Department of the Air Force’s Department-Level Exercise series. 

The U.S. Air Force tasked PACAF to demonstrate its ability to rapidly disperse thousands of servicemembers and associated equipment across the region to defend the United States, ally and partner nations, and their interests in the Pacific as part of the DLE.

Throughout REFORPAC 2025, PACAF will conduct its most comprehensive contingency-response exercise, training military members to maintain readiness and execute missions under stress. The exercise will take place in multiple locations in the Pacific, including Hawaii, Guam, Japan and international airspace. 

Activities will highlight critical skills such as aircraft flightline operations, munitions loading, hot-pit rapid refueling, combat search and rescue, distributed logistics and multilateral air-to-air refueling. REFORPAC will test how well PACAF and its many partners adapt in a challenging environment to remain fully mission capable. The unprecedented event will have Airmen practice commanding and controlling aircraft operations at high speed and grand scale, making decisions under stress, while working together with multinational partners to improve military capabilities. 

“We must be ready to operate in austere conditions, with degraded networks, and through disruptions to sustainment chains. Our forces must be self-sufficient, mobile, and capable of rapid adaptation,” said Gen. Kevin Schneider, PACAF commander. 

“The exercise conditions during REFORPAC will require Airmen to move fast, fight under attack, and sustain combat operations in ways we haven’t done in decades. Our ability to fight and prevail in any contested environment depends on our team’s ability to generate aircraft sorties while under attack and often far away from our main operating bases. I have full confidence that we will be able to do this, but we must continue to refine our skills to stay ahead of the environment in which we operate.” - Pacific Air Forces Commander Gen. Kevin Schneider

The REFORPAC exercise will involve more than 300 aircraft and feature U.S. Air Force members alongside colleagues from partner nations and other branches of the U.S. military. The exercise is a realistic and challenging test of their abilities, helping servicemembers increase their ability to respond to shared challenges. Exercises like REFORPAC are crucial to ensuring the U.S. Air Force remains at the forefront of military innovation, collaborating with allies and partners to deliver unparalleled results for the Department of Defense. 

The DLE is the first-in-a-generation series of exercises encompassing all branches of the DoD, along with allies and partners, over 350 joint and coalition aircraft and more than 12,000 members at more than 50 locations across 3,000 miles.