Air Force Special Operations Command recently wrapped up Emerald Warrior 25.2, a large-scale military exercise meant to test the Air Force’s ability to coordinate conventional and special operations forces in contested areas. The exercise mostly took place in Arizona and California. Mostly.

While airmen were active in the American Southwest, another part of the Emerald Warrior 25.2 exercise was happening, this time far away in the southern Caribbean. Over the last week of August, a mix of airmen, including combat controllers, special reconnaissance troops, and pararescuemen, practiced seizing an airfield, using it as the base of operations for widespread search and rescue operations and carrying out island-hopping reconnaissance and raiding missions. The drills had been planned in advance

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