The South Korean Air Force’s 11th Fighter Wing (11th FW) reinforces its combat readiness posture through intensive, simultaneous day-and-night field mobility drills.
The 11th FW is conducting the 25-1 Combat Readiness Exercise (ORE) from Monday to Thursday to establish a response posture against enemy provocations and improve wartime operational procedures.
The training focuses on enhancing wartime air operation capabilities and mastering crisis response procedures. It is being carried out in a simultaneous, multi-domain approach, combining a Combat Command Post Exercise (CPX)—which strengthens commanders’ and staff officers’ wartime leadership capabilities—with field training exercises (FTX) to improve mission execution proficiency for all personnel.
On Monday’s first day of training, exercises included emergency return and rapid redeployment training, complex counterterrorism training, and maximum armament loading training. During the complex counterterrorism exercise, personnel conducted drills under scenarios involving a suspected explosive attack at the base’s main gate and a hostage situation within the installation, enhancing base survivability. The emergency return and rapid redeployment exercise focused on quickly rearming and refueling returning aircraft to ensure they could be redeployed for missions in the shortest possible time.
From the second day onward, the exercise will continue with training to validate and enhance nighttime operational capabilities. In particular, the day-and-night wartime sortie exercise will assess the sustainability of night operations. In contrast, the comprehensive nighttime base defense exercise will evaluate step-by-step defense response measures and emergency communication procedures.
Additionally, various crisis response training exercises will be conducted to reinforce operational continuity in extreme conditions, including aircraft decontamination training for rapid pilot evacuation in a simulated chemical, biological, or radiological (CBR) contamination scenario; runway damage recovery training to quickly repair large-scale craters on the airstrip caused by simulated enemy strikes; and disaster control, wartime key equipment and supply dispersal, and power and water outage drills to enhance personnel’s ability to sustain operations under crisis conditions.
Colonel Kim Hak Sun, Inspector General and Chief of Safety, stated, “This training is designed to assess and refine our unit’s wartime procedures and mission execution capabilities. We will continue to devote our full efforts to maintaining a flawless defense posture, ensuring our ability to respond effectively to adversarial threats.”
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