DAYTON, Ohio — The Wright Patterson Air Force Base is warning residents of a potentially disruptive training exercise that will contain smoke, flashbangs, gunfire, helicopter activity and other aircraft activity.

Citizen Airmen with the 445th Aeromedical Staging Squadron, alongside the 944th ASTS from Luke AFB, Arizona are partaking in the exercise which is set for Saturday, June 7 from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.


What You Need To Know

  • Several training exercises are scheduled for Saturday, June 7.

  •  Training is set for three locations at Wright-Patterson AFB, Wright State University’s Calamityville Training and Research Facility in Fairborn, Ohio and portions of the Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport, Ohio

  • The training will include smoke, flashbangs, gunfire, helicopter activity and other aircraft activity

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According to a news release, the exercise will simulate medical operations post invasion in a contested space. It's set for three locations at Wright-Patterson AFB, Wright State University’s Calamityville Training and Research Facility in Fairborn, Ohio and portions of the Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport, Ohio.

The training is set to run simultaneously across the three locations, but there is a potential that one may end sooner.

Also on Saturday, the Air Force, Army and Marine Corps will be conducting Close Air Support training in the Buckeye and Bush Creek Military Operations Areas from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The area affected ranges from around Bardwell to Leesburg to Staunton to Chillicothe to West Portsmouth to Georgetown.

The 445th Security Forces Squadron is also conducting night training on Saturday, June 7 from 9 p.m. to midnight that will include gunfire and explosions.

For more information, contact the 445th Airlift Wing Public Affairs office at (937) 257-5784 or email 445AW.PA2@us.af.mil.