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This is an incomplete list of U.S. Department of Defense code names primarily the two-word series variety. Officially, Arkin (2005) says that there are three types of code name:

  • Nicknames – a combination of two separate unassociated and unclassified words (e.g. Polo and Step) assigned to represent a specific program, special access program, exercise, or activity.
  • Code words – a single classified word (e.g. BYEMAN) which identifies a specific special access program or portion. A list of several such code words can be seen at Byeman Control System.
  • Exercise terms – a combination of two words, normally unclassified, used exclusively to designate an exercise or test[1]

In 1975, the Joint Chiefs of Staff introduced the Code Word, Nickname, and Exercise Term System (NICKA) which automated the assignment of names. NICKA gives each DOD organization a series of two-letter alphabetic sequences, requiring each 'first word' or a nickname to begin with a letter pair. For example, AG through AL was assigned to United States Joint Forces Command.[1]

The general system described above is now in use by NATO, the United Kingdom, Canada (Atlantic Guard, Atlantic Spear, Atlantic Shield) Australia and New Zealand, and allies/partners including countries like Sweden.

Most of the below listings are "Nicknames."

List of code names

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A

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  • Able – NATO Allied Command Europe and U.S. European Command nuclear weapons exercise first word. First gained prominence after the Able Archer 83 nuclear command and control exercise.
    • Able Ally – annual command post exercise involving escalation to nuclear use. Held November/December/
    • Able Archer 83
    • Able Crystal – nuclear weapons related exercise
    • Able Gain – annual United States Air Forces in Europe field training exercise involving NATO Nuclear sharing forces
    • Able Staff – command post exercise, April–September 1997, practicing SACEUR's nuclear warning system.
  • Able – Coast Guard first word
    • Able Manner – Windward Passage patrols to interdict Haitian migrants, January 1993-November 1993.
    • Able Response, Able Vigil
  • Able Avionics – Air Training Command program of 1976 to provide only elemental training for avionics systems maintenance at training centers, with further training given at field training detachments.[2]
  • Able Chief – Air Training Command program of 1976 to provide only elemental training for crew chiefs at training centers, with further training given at field training detachments.[2]
  • Able Mable – McDonnell RF-101 Voodo detachments in Viet Nam and Thailand for reconnaissance over Laos[3]
  • Operation Able Sentry/Sabre 1993–1999 – U.S. Army task force attached to United Nations Preventive Deployment Force (UNPREDEP) in Macedonia to monitor border activity.
  • Ace Guard – NATO deployment of the ACE Mobile Force (Air) and surface to air missiles to Turkey, between 3 January 1991 – 8 March 1991.[4] Turkey had requested greater NATO forces to be deployed to meet any Iraqi threat after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on 2 August 1990.
  • Operation Acid Gambit – Operation undertaken by U.S. Army Delta Force and the 160th SOAR to rescue Kurt Muse, a U.S. citizen involved in the broadcast of anti-Noriega material, during the United States invasion of Panama, 1989.
  • Active Edge – Routine no-notice NATO Allied Forces Central Europe readiness exercise held twice yearly. "The most recent such exercise took place, on the date and in the format planned, on 12th June 1989. It did not include the exercise deployment of forces outside their garrisons." (House of Lords Debate 27 June 1989)[5]
  • Operation Active Endeavour – NATO Allied Forces Southern Europe Mediterranean patrols
  • Operation Active Fence – operations to guard NATO border during Syrian fighting
  • Adventure – ACE Mobile Force first word
    • Adventure Exchange – command post exercise
    • Adventure Express – winter exercise series, dating to at least 1983.
  • African – U.S.-Moroccan EUCOM (now Africa Command) first word
    • African Eagle – U.S.-Moroccan biennial exercise practicing deployment of USAF units to Morocco. Dates to at least 1984.
    • African Falcon '85, African Fox '85.
    • African Lion – in 2009 described as "Train forces capable of conducting joint and combined U.S., air, and land combat interoperability operations."[6]
  • Exercise Agile Spirit 19 began with dual opening ceremonies at Senaki Air Base and Vaziani Training Area in the country of Georgia on July 27, 2019. Approximately 3,300 military personnel from 14 allied and partner forces were expected to participate in the exercise.[7]
  • Exercise Alam Halfa – U.S.-New Zealand, NZ-sponsored land forces exercise, Linton and Napier, central North Island, April 26-May 6, 2012. The new exercise series, according to the New Zealand Herald, was made possible by the "Wellington Declaration" signed by the two countries in November 2010.[8] Continued probably yearly after that point; Alam Halfa 2013. Named for the Battle of Alam Halfa during World War II.
  • Allied – NATO Allied Command Europe first word
    • Allied Action, Allied Effort – CJTF exercises
    • Operation Allied Force 1999 – Air war over Serbia to withdraw forces from Kosovo.
    • Operations Allied Goodwill I & II, 4–9 February & 27 February-24 March 1992. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991, NATO flew teams of humanitarian assistance experts and medical advisors to Russia and other former Soviet states using NATO Airborne Early Warning Force trainer cargo aircraft.
  • Operation Amber Star – Delta Force and Intelligence Support Activity anti-Persons Indicted for War Crimes (PIFWC) reconnaissance and surveillance, Bosnia-Herzegovina[9]
  • Exercise Ample Strike – In August and September 2017, the 307th Bomb Wing supported and participated in Exercise Ample Strike, which was Czech Republic led with two B-52s and two B-1s. This was a critical, annual exercise meant to increase proficiency levels of all forward air controllers and joint terminal air controllers, as well as to improve standardization and interoperability across NATO Allies and partners that included multiple European countries.
  • Ample Train (previously "Ample Gain") – Exercise "initiated to improve the ability of NATO's Air Forces to work on and with each others aircraft; ground servicing crews from one nation [worked] with air crew and aircraft from other nations."[10]
  • Anatolian Eagle – an air force exercise hosted by the Turkish Air Force and held in Konya, Turkey. There are both national and international exercises held, the international exercises usually involving air arms of the United States, other NATO forces, and Asian countries. The first exercise, Anatolian Eagle 01, was held by TAF Operations Command on 18–29 June 2001. As well as Turkey, the air forces of USA and Israel also participated.[11]
  • Operation Anchor Guard – 10 August 1990 – 9 March 1991. Following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait of 2 August 1990, Boeing E-3 Sentry aircraft of the NATO Airborne Early Warning Force were moved to Konya, Turkey to monitor the situation.[4] The aircraft remained Konya to maintain surveillance of south-eastern Turkey throughout the crisis, which led to the Gulf War of January–March 1991.
  • In January 1980, USS Saipan (LHA-2) was out to sea to an amphibious landing at Cape Code in preparation for the NATO Exercise Anorak Express. Sailing February 14 for Northern Norway, the ship entered into her first operational deployment.[12]
  • Operation Arc Light B-52 operations in Southeast Asia, primarily bombing the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam); South Vietnam; and Cambodia. Bombing Cambodian border areas was intended to hinder North Vietnamese use of the Ho Chi Minh Trail supply line to South Vietnam.
  • Operation Arid Farmer – 1983 Support to the crisis in Chad
  • Ardent Sentry – annual U.S. Northern Command homeland security/defense exercise.[13]
  • Armada Sweep – U.S. Navy electronic surveillance from ships off the coast of East Africa to support drone operations in the region.[14]
  • Exercises Atlantic Guard (May 2002, Land Forces Atlantic Area); Atlantic Spear (18-22 November 2002, hosted by LFAA); Atlantic Shield (12 May 2003, hosted by Halifax Port Authority – Canadian interagency homeland security exercises.[15]
  • Atlas – U.S. European Command/Africa Command African and sometimes European operation first word
    • Atlas Drop – from 1997 to 2003, U.S.-Tunisian exercise[16]
    • Central Accord 14 was started by U.S. European Command in 1996, at which time it was called Atlas Drop. AFRICOM took over the exercise in 2008, and renamed it Atlas Accord in 2012. This put it in line with AFRICOM's other “Accord series” exercises, which focus on training African ground forces. Atlas Accord 12 was an AFRICOM Mali-based medical exercise conducted in Mopti, Mali, on 7–15 February 2012 despite the cancellation of Flintlock 12. The joint-aerial-delivery exercise, hosted by U.S. Army Africa, brought together Army personnel with African armed forces to enhance air drop capabilities and ensure effective delivery of military resupply materials and humanitarian aid.[8]
    • Atlas Eagle – in 2009 described as "Train forces capable of conducting joint and combined U.S., air, and land combat interoperability operations."[6]
    • Atlas Response – response to Mozambique floods of 2001
    • Atlas Vision – peacekeeping exercise with Russia. Atlas Vision 2012 appears to have been the first of a series, according to commentators at Small Wars Journal. Atlas Vision 2013 took place in Germany. U.S. European Command had been in the planning stages for Atlas Vision 2014, which was to take place in July in Chelyabinsk (Chelyabinsk Oblast), and focus on joint peace-keeping operations. Because of the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014, “all planning for this exercise has been suspended.”[17]
  • Attain Document – in 1986, the US Navy began several "Freedom of Navigation" operations in the area around Libya, the first two parts of the operation being held from January 26–30, and February 12–15 without incident. The third part began on 23 March 1986 and led to the Action in the Gulf of Sidra (1986).
  • Operation Assured Delivery – DOD logistical support to humanitarian aid efforts in Georgia following the Russo-Georgian War in 2008.
  • Assured Lift – a Joint Task Force carried out move of Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group cease-fire monitoring troops into Liberia, March–April 1997, from Abidjan. See also European Command documentation.[18]
  • Assured Response – a Joint Task Force carried out Non-combatant evacuation operation from Monrovia, Liberia, 8 April-12 August 1996. Run by Special Operations Command, Europe.[18]
  • Operation Auburn Endeavor 1998 – relocation of uranium fuel from Tbilisi, Georgia.[19]
  • Exercise Austere Challenge – October 2012 US-Israel military exercise (missile defense). Austere Challenge '15 was a warfighting exercise conducted across several locations in the U.S. European Command area,[20] which involved participation by the 1 (German/Netherlands) Corps.
  • Austere Strike – U.S. Air Force system utilizing an electro-optical seeker and tracker for acquisition and tracking missions flown by McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II aircraft.[21]
  • Autumn Forge – A series of NATO exercises conducted each year in Allied Command Europe. It began in 1975 linking a number of training exercises under a common scenario, to present a more potent public image.[22] Autumn Forge 83.
  • Operation Autumn Return – non-combatant evacuation operation (NEO) in Côte d'Ivoire, September–October 2002.
  • Operation Avid Recovery – U.S. European Command activities with Nigerian and British service personnel in clearing unexploded ordnance left over after the 2002 Lagos armoury explosion at Ikeja Cantonment, Lagos, on 27 January 2002. U.S. Explosive Ordnance Disposal soldiers helped to "stabilize" the cantonment area, as well as "providing safety training to the public and special ordnance handling training" for Nigerian Armed Forces personnel.[23]
  • Joint Task Force Aztec Silence – European Command "established Joint Task Force AZTEC SILENCE under the Commander of the U.S. Sixth Fleet in December 2003 to counter transnational terrorism in the under-governed areas of Northern Africa and to build closer alliances with those governments. In support of this, U.S. Navy intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets Lockheed P-3 Orions based in Sigonella, Sicily were used to collect and share information with U.S. [partners] and their militaries. This robust cooperative ISR effort was augmented by the release of intelligence collected by national assets."[24]

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  • Baby Bonnet – Operation during the Cuban Missile Crisis by RB-47 Stratojets of the 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing to locate the soviet tanker Grozny, operating from Lajes Air Base[25]
  • Baker Blade – Classified exercise.
  • Baker Mint – Conducted by the US Army and Malaysia in 1997.
  • Baker Mint 99-1 – Conducted by the US Army and Malaysia in 1999. Trained on military intelligence and photo-surveillance.
  • Baker Mint Lens 99 – Conducted by the US Army and Malaysia in 1999.
  • Baker Mondial V – Conducted by the US Army and Mongolia in 1997. Trained on medical procedures.
  • Baker Mongoose II – Conducted by the US Army and Mongolia in 1995.
  • Baker Piston Lens 2000 – Conducted by the US Army and the Philippines in 2000.
  • Baker Tepid – A series of eight exercises conducted by the US Army and Thailand.
  • Baker Torch – A series of three exercises conducted by the US Army and Thailand from 1999 to 2001. Trained on border control.
  • Baker Torch Lens – Conducted by the US Army and Thailand. Trained on diving.
  • Banner – First word for withdrawal of USAF units from Thailand in extension of Keystone operations
    • Banner Star – Inactivation of 43d Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron, 556th Civil Engineering Squadron (Heavy Repair), 609th Special Operations Squadron, discontinuance of F-102 detachment at Udorn and movement of planes to Clark Air Base, consolidating F-105s at Takhli, reduction of C-121s of 553d Reconnaissance Wing by one third.[26]
    • Banner Sun – Ended USAF activities at Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base; inactivated 355th Tactical Fighter Wing, moved F-105s to Kadena Air Base, moved one squadron of Wild Weasel aircraft to Korat, reduced 553d Reconnaissance Wing to a squadron, moved 11th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron to United States, discontinued F-102 detachment at Don Muang and movement of planes to Clark Air Base.[27]
  • Bar None – Strategic Air Command exercise to test operational effectiveness of a wing. Name replaced by Buy None.
  • Operation Barrel Roll – Air interdiction in northern and central Laos against Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese Army forces[3]
  • Operation Bat Cat – EC-121R electronic surveillance of the Ho Chi Minh Trail[3]
  • Exercise Battle Griffin – amphibious exercise practicing reception, staging, and operation of a Marine Air-Ground Task Force in defense of Northern Norway. Also involved UK, Netherlands. In 1991 Exercise Battle Griffin took place in February–March. That year the 2nd MEB made the first test of the Norway Air-Landed Marine Expeditionary Brigade, composed completely of Marine Corps Reserve units as Operation Desert Storm was getting under way. The force comprised HQ Company 25th Marines, 3/25 Marines, Co E, 4th Reconnaissance Battalion, and 1st Battalion, 14th Marines (artillery, composed of HQ, Alpha, and Bravo Batteries).[28] Battle Griffin 93; Battle Griffin 96.[29]
  • Beacon Flash – U.S.-Oman dissimilar air combat exercise going back to the 1970s.[29] Carrier Air Wing 1 flying from USS America (CV-66) carried out at least two 'Beacon Flash' exercises in the first half of 1983 (Command History 1983).
  • Bell Tone – US Air Force air defense detachment at Don Muang Air Base from 1961[3]
  • Operation Big Buzz – a DOD entomological warfare field test probably conducted by the Army Chemical Corps in the U.S. state of Georgia in 1955.
  • Operation Big Star – Minuteman Mobility Test Train rail-mobile test of deployment of Minuteman ICBMs, 1960.
  • Big Eye – Original name of College Eye Task Force, 1965–1967[3]
  • Big Safari – a United States Air Force program begun in 1952 which provides management, direction, and control of the acquisition, modification, and logistics support for special purpose weapons systems derived from existing aircraft and systems.
  • Black Spot – Fairchild C-123Ks modified with sensors and capability to drop cluster bombs for night interdiction operations over the Ho Chi Minh Trail.[3]
  • Blind Bat – C-130 flare drop and forward air control operations from Thailand.[3]
  • Operation Blade Jewel – the return of military dependents to the U.S. at the time of the United States invasion of Panama.[30]
  • Blue Banner – Strategic Air Command KC-97 Stratofreighter from Kindley Air Force Base, Bermuda and Lajes Air Base, Azores maritime reconnaissance for Atlantic Command during the Cuban Missile Crisis[31]
  • Operation Blue Bat – Deployment of Composite Air Strike Force to Lebanon in 1958[32]
  • Blue Springs – Joint Chiefs of Staff directive for photographic reconnaissance in Southeast Asia using SAC Ryan Model 147 drones. First mission flown from Kadena Air Base 20 August 1964. Moved to Bien Hoa Air Base in October 1964. Included missions over China. Renamed Bumble Bug on 1 August 1967.[33]
  • Operation Blue Tree – US Air Force photographic reconnaissance missions over North Vietnam.[3]
  • Bold Alligator – post Cold War Pacific Fleet amphibious exercise, with foreign participation.
  • Bold Quest – In 2013, Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point hosted warfighters, technology teams and testers from 10 states and each of the U.S. military services for the 11th Bold Quest coalition demonstration. Cherry Point was chosen for its ideal location for hosting East Coast military assets, and supported two U.S. Navy warships operating offshore.[34] Nearly 1,800 military personnel from the U.S. and partners participated in Bold Quest 17.2 in Savannah, Georgia, the latest in a series of coalition capability demonstration and assessment events sponsored by the Joint Staff. Over the course of 18 days in October–November, members of the U.S. armed services, National Guard, U.S. Special Operations Command, NATO Headquarters and 16 partner states participated in the demonstration, which collected technical data on systems and subjective judgments from the warfighters using them.
  • Bounty Hunter – counter-space electronic warfare system located at Peterson Air Force Base, tested by 17th Test Squadron on behalf of United States Space Force during February 2020.[35]
  • Exercise Bright Star – U.S./Egypt, downsizing
  • Brass Knob – Strategic Air Command Lockheed U-2 photographic reconnaissance during the Cuban Missile Crisis[36]
  • Brown Cradle – Electronic warfare modification package for Douglas EB-66 aircraft[3]
  • Buckskin Rider – one of numerous exercises 40th Air Division, USAF, took part in 1951–89 time period.[37]
  • Operation Buffalo Hunter – Drone reconnaissance operations over North Vietnam[38]
  • Operation Bullet Shot – temporary duty assignment of US-based technicians to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, during the Vietnam War. Known as "the herd shot 'round the world".[39])
  • Bumble Bug – Photographic reconnaissance in Southeast Asia using SAC Ryan Model 147 drones. Replaced Blue Springs on 1 August 1967. Renamed Bumpy Action in December 1968[40]
  • Bumpy Action – Ryan AQM-34 (formerly Model 147) drone reconnaissance missions over Southeast Asia from December 1968. Formerly Bumble Bug. Mostly low level missions, when high resolution photography was required, or cloud cover prevented SR-71 photography. After October 1969, included missions as far as 200 miles into China. Operations moved to U-Tapao Royal Thai Naval Airfield in July 1970.[38][41]
  • Burning Wind – a codename for signals intelligence (SIGINT) missions by the United States Air Force. The missions are undertaken by RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft. Other missions undertaken by Rivet Joint aircraft may be designated Misty Wind.[42]
  • Operation Burnt Frost – interception and destruction of a non-functioning U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) satellite named USA-193.[43] A launch from the cruiser Lake Erie took place on February 20, 2008.
  • Busy – Strategic Air Command first word programs
  • Button Up – Strategic Air Command security system reset procedures used during Minuteman facility wind down
  • Buy None – Strategic Air Command exercise to test operational effectiveness of wings. Name replaced Bar None. Included participation of 40th Air Division in 1951–89 period.[37]

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  • Operation Calm Support 1998–1999 – Support to Kosovo Diplomatic Observer Mission mission.[45]
  • Operation Carolina Moon – Attack on the Thanh Hoa Bridge by Lockheed C-130 aircraft using large magnetic mines dropped upriver from the bridge to float under the bridge and explode[3]
  • Exercise Carte Blanche – NATO atomic warfare exercise, circa 1955, which the 21st Fighter-Bomber Group took part in, vicinity of Central Europe.[46]
  • Cedar Sweep – flights in 2010 by 9th Reconnaissance Wing from RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus, surveillance over Lebanon, relaying information about Hezbollah militants to Lebanese authorities. See Highland Warrior.
  • Celestial Balance – 2009 Baraawe raid in Somalia that killed Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan
  • Operation Centennial Contact was an operation of the United States Air Force and National Guard conducted on 27 June 2023 to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the first aerial refueling. Aircraft from various bases conducted aerial refueling exercises across the United States, as well conducting flyovers in 50 states.[47] 152 aircraft were slated to participate in the operation, with 82 tanker aircraft providing refueling support to 70 other participating aircraft.[48]
  • Exercise Central Enterprise – NATO Allied Forces Baltic Approaches/Allied Forces Central Europe exercise, "designed to test the integrated air defense system throughout Western Europe. Regular exercises which incorporate a major military low flying element over the United Kingdom include Exercises Elder Forest (once every two years), Elder Joust (once a year), Central Enterprise (once a year), Mallet Blow (twice a year), OSEX (once a year) and Salty Hammer (once a year). Some of these exercises test and practice the United Kingdom air defenses while others primarily provide aircrews with training in tactical low flying techniques. The June 1982 Central Enterprise exercise marked the first practical test of the new NATO airborne early warning system."[49] 1997 included deployment of 301st Fighter Wing, Air Force Reserve.
  • Circuit Gold – On 7 November 1973 CINC Pacific Fleet announced the deployment of a Circuit Gold aircraft to monitor units of the Soviet Navy. Circuit Gold was the name for Navy special multi-sensor Lockheed P-3A aircraft. Two such aircraft were assigned to the United States Pacific Fleet, operated by VP-4. (CINCPAC Command History 1973, 254, 281/818 at Nautilus)
  • Operation Chrome Dome – Strategic Air Command airborne alert indoctrination training.
  • Cobra – Headquarters USAF First word code name programs
  • College Eye – Lockheed EC-121 aircraft flying from bases in Thailand to provide radar coverage over Laos and North Vietnam[3]
  • Combat – Headquarters USAF First word code name programs[57]
  • Comfy Levy – Volant Solo EC-130Es using palletized electronics and clip on antennas to conduct Senior Scout and Senior Hunter missions with operators from Electronic Security Command.[63]
  • Commando Bearcat, Commando Jade, and Commando Night – regional exercises supported by 314th Air Division, Fifth Air Force, in South Korea, 1955–84.[64]
  • Commando Buzz – 1970 Employment of Coronet Solo EC-121s to aid the Cambodian Government by rebroadcasting civil radio broadcasts to remote areas of the country.[63]
  • Commando Club – US operation of the Vietnam War which used command guidance of aircraft by radar at Lima Site 85 in Laos[3] for ground-directed bombing (GDB) of targets in North Vietnam and clandestine targets in Laos.
  • Operation Commando Hunt – Interdiction of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, 1968-1972.[3] Individual phases were identified by roman numerals, with odd numbers used for dry season operations and even numbers for wet season operations
  • Exercise Commando Sling – Approximately three deployments of USAF F-15s and F-16s from both Active Duty and National Guard units from around the world are made each year to Singapore under this title. The 497th Combat Training Flight takes part in regional exercise and global contingencies, and provides housing; morale, recreation and welfare facilities and programs: medical services; force protection to resources and personnel; and legal, financial, communications, and contracting support to assigned and deployed personnel.
  • Operation Commando Sabre – Use of North American F-100F aircraft as 'fast FACs" in Southeast Asia[3]
  • Commando Solo – Volant Solo psychological warfare program renamed with upgrades to EC-130Es (and later EC-130Js). Originally Coronet Solo with EC-121Ss.[65]
  • Compass Arrow – Originally Lone Eagle. Design of longer range reconnaissance drone starting in 1966. Ryan AQM-91 Firefly[66]
  • Compass Call – EC-130H electronic warfare aircraft.[67] Programmed for upgrade to EC-37Bs,
  • Compass Cookie – Ryan AQM-34N high altitude drones modified to optimize intercept of Soviet SA-2 surface to air missile downlink signals. Deployed to U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield, with missions flown in September 1972.[68]
  • Compass Dart – Project Phyllis Ann airborne radio direction finding in Vietnam renamed in spring 1967. Platforms redesignated from RC-47 to EC-47 and direction finding equipment from AN/ARD-18 to AN/ALR-34.[69]
  • Constant – Arkin lists this prefix as an 'Air force operations first word, often referring to Air Force Technical Applications Center and other reconnaissance missions. Constant programs in the 1980s included Constant Bore, Constant Dome, Constant Fish, Constant Globe, Constant Seek, and Constant Take.'[57]
Arkin lists Constant subprograms included Constant Blue (Presidential successor helicopter evacuation plan), Constant Gate, Constant Help, Constant Phoenix (55th Wing nuclear monitoring) Constant Pisces, Constant Shotgun, Constant Source, Constant Spur, Constant Star, Constant Stare (an Air Intelligence Agency organization).[70][71]
  • Project Constant Growth – From October 1975 to July 1976 name of program to give copilots of heavy airlift and bombardment aircraft experience by flying smaller training aircraft. Nickname dropped and program retitled Accelerated Copilot Enrichment.[72]
  • Operation Constant Guard – Deployment of tactical aircraft to Southeast Asia in response to the 1972 Easter Offensive[3]
  • Constant Peg – evaluation of clandestinely-acquired Soviet fighter aircraft at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, by 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron. The idea of a more realistic training program for the Air Force was devised by USAF Colonel Gail Peck, a Vietnam veteran F-4 pilot, who was dissatisfied with his service's fighter pilot training. After the war, he worked at the Department of Defense, where he heard about the Have Drill and Have Doughnut programs. He won the support of USAF General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Jr. and launched "Constant Peg," named after Vandenberg's callsign, "Constant," and Peck's wife, Peg.[73]
  • Operation Continuing Promise – periodic series of US military exercises conducted under the direction of United States Southern Command. Designated by Roman numeral (“Continuing Promise I” was in 2007), or by year (“Continuing Promise 2009”); they provide medical, dental and veterinary aid to people in Latin America.[74]
  • Operation Cool Shoot – live missile firing exercise, held at Tyndall AFB, Florida, with participation of 21st Composite Wing, Alaskan Air Command.
  • Exercise Cope North – an annual multinational military exercise taking place in and around Guam.[75] The first exercise took place in 1978.[76]
  • Exercise Cope Thunder – A Pacific Air Forces-sponsored exercise initiated in 1976, Cope Thunder was devised as a way to give aircrews their first taste of warfare and quickly grew into PACAF's "premier simulated combat airpower employment exercise."[77] Moved from Clark Air Base to Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska in 1992, permanently, after the eruption of Mount Pinatubo.
  • Exercise Cope Tiger – USAF exercise in Thailand
  • Copper Dune – Joint Special Operations Command strike operations in Yemen/Arabian Peninsula, 2011–2012.[78]
  • Project Cornrose – Study of the use of nuclear weapons to destroy dams and harbor infrastructure[79]
  • Corona South – the 72nd Bombardment Wing at Ramey Air Force Base in Puerto Rico hosted the annual United States Air Force Commander's Conferences, code named Corona South, which began on an irregular basis in 1955. By the 1960s, Corona South had become a regular annual event at Ramey. It continued until the wing was inactivated. Military Airlift Command then continued them until Ramey closed and they were transferred to Homestead Air Force Base, Florida.[80]
  • Coronet Bare – 1969 demonstration of "bare base" concept of deployment.[81]
  • Coronet Cobra – Deployment of Coronet Solo EC-121s to Korat Royal Thai Air Base.[63]
  • Coronet Nighthawk – Operation Coronet Nighthawk was a Caribbean deployment of Air Force fighters.
  • Coronet Oak – the continuing operation in which Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) and Air National Guard (ANG) C-130 aircraft, aircrews and related support personnel deploy from the United States to Muñiz Air National Guard Base, Puerto Rico, to provide theater airlift support for the U.S. Southern Command. The mission moved from Howard Air Force Base, Panama, as a result of the DOD withdrawal from Panama, from April 1999. Units rotate in and out of Muñiz ANGB every two weeks. Forces assigned to Coronet Oak provide United States Southern Command with logistic and contingency support throughout Central and South America.[82] The mission typically covers embassy resupply, medical evacuations, and support of U.S. troops and/or the Drug Enforcement Administration.
  • Coronet Solo – EC-121Ss modified for psychological warfare to broadcast radio and TV with electronic warfare capability. Renamed Volant Solo with introduction of EC-130Es.[83]
  • Creek – USAFE first word
    • Creek Action – Command-wide effort by Hq USAFE to realign functions and streamline operations, 1973
    • Creek Caste – intelligence program/project
    • Creek Claw – intelligence program/project
    • Creek Fury – intelligence program/project involving C-130E aircraft[84][85]
    • Creek Flush – intelligence program/project (circa 1975+)
    • Creek Klaxon – In 1986, the 119th Fighter-Interceptor Group (ND ARNG) assumed the USAF Zulu alert mission at Ramstein Air Base, West Germany. The 119th and other Reserve Component Air Defense units rotated to Ramstein and stood continuous air sovereignty alert for one year, provided for NATO.
    • Creek Party – Deployment of Air National Guard Boeing KC-97 tankers to Europe to support United States Air Forces Europe operations.
    • Creek Victor – intelligence program/project (circa 1980)
  • Operation Crescent Wind – initial air attack against Taliban/Al Qaeda in Afghanistan after the September 11 terrorist attacks, from 7 October 2001.

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  • Dacian Star – Combined exercise with the Romanian Air Force, name is followed by year of exercise.
  • Operation Dawn Blitz – Post 2010 amphibious exercise with foreign participation
  • Exercise Dawn Patrol – A five-nation NATO naval and air exercise conducted throughout the Mediterranean in 1974.[86] The U.S. contribution to the exercise was based on the USS America carrier battle group.
  • Operation Deep Freeze Annual resupply operations for American scientific sites in Antarctica.
  • Exercise Deep Furrow – 1960s-1970s Allied Forces Southern Europe exercise practicing the defense of Greece and Turkey.[87]
  • Deep Siren – Raytheon/RRK/Ultra Electronics Maritime Systems expendable "long-range acoustic tactical pager", launched via sub/surface/air-launched buoy (JDW 21 Nov 2007).
  • Operation Deliberate Force 1995 – NATO air strikes on Bosnian Serb military forces.
  • Operation Deny Flight 1993–1995 – U.S./NATO enforcement of no-fly zone over Bosnia-Herzegovina.[88]
  • Operation Desert – various
  • Destined Glory – Cold War NATO naval exercise, Mediterranean. Also held May 1995, 7–20 April 1997 - DG 97, and 5–22 May 1998.[91] Also tested Multinational Amphibious Task Force concept, previous designated CAFMED until late 1999.
  • Operation Determined Falcon 1998 – 80-aircraft NATO show of force over Albania near Kosovo.[92]
  • Operation Determined Forge – maritime component of Operation Joint Force (SFOR II).[93][94]
  • Operation Determined Guard – the first naval activity associated with Operation Joint Guard (the Stabilization Force (invariably known as "S-For") in Bosnia-Herzegovina).[93][95]
  • Determined Promise-03 (DP-03) was a two-week, multi-level exercise which started on August 18, 2002, with a simulated outbreak of pneumonic plague in Nevada, adding a hurricane, an air threat in Alaska, and a train wreck in Kentucky to the list of 1,700 'injects' that would crop up during the exercise. DP-03 was intended as the final testing event before the declaration of Full Operational Capability for U.S. Northern Command, with DHS and a total of 34 federal agencies represented.[96][97]
  • Project Dragon Lady – initial purchase of 31 Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft by the United States Air Force
  • Operation Dragon Rouge – Airlift of Belgian troops to evacuate civilians during rebellion in the Congo, 1964.[98]*

Operation Dragoon Ride

  • Project Drill Press – Modification of a Douglas C-47 Skytrain with airborne radio direction finding equipment. A predecessor of Project Phyllis Ann, although the single Drill Press aircraft had more sophisticated electronics.[99]
  • Dust Hardness – A modification improvement to Minuteman-III approved for service use in 1972

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Somalia National Army troops passing in review during an Exercise Eastern Wind '83 ceremony

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  • Exercise Jack Frost (later known as BRIM FROST) – exercise by U.S. forces in Alaska.[155]
  • Jagged Thorn – British exercise in Sudan, 1978, with 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards and elements Life Guards (Acorn, magazine of Life Guards, 1979).
  • Joint Anvil – unknown special operation, 1999-2001[156]
  • Operation Joint Endeavor – NATO operation to enforce the Treaty of Paris ending the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Began when the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps entered Bosnia on 20 December 1995.
  • Operation Joint Forge – NATO support for SFOR 1998-c.2005
  • Operation Joint Guard – NATO follow-on force to Joint Endeavor, SFOR, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1996–1998
  • Joint Guardian – NATO-led Kosovo Force
  • Joint Spirit – NATO Combined Joint Task Force CPX/computer-aided exercise, planned as a building block for Strong Resolve, 1–30 September 2001. Cut short after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.[157]
  • Operation Joint Venture
  • Exercise Joint Winter – NATO exercise in Norway, 5–16 March 2001.
  • Jolly Roger – UK national submarine exercise, 1995[157]
  • Jukebox Lotus – Operations in Libya after the attack on U.S. Consulate in Benghazi.[14]
  • Operation Jump Start
  • Operation Junction City – 1966 Vietnam War airborne operation in War Zone C, South Vietnam
  • Exercise Judicious Response – U.S. Africa Command CJCS-directed warfighting TTX. JR 15 included certification of 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade.
  • Junction Rain – Maritime security operations in the Gulf of Guinea.[14]
  • Junction Serpent – Surveillance operations of ISIS forces near Sirte, Libya[14]
  • Jungle Jim – Code name for 4400th Combat Crew Training Squadron, later expanded to form the 1st Air Commando Wing[3]
  • Juniper – EUCOM/Israeli first word.
    • Juniper Cobra
    • Juniper Falconry – On 29 March 1992, Vice Admiral W. A. Owens, Commander, United States Sixth Fleet, embarked aboard USS Monterey (CG-61) with a 28-man Army, Navy, and Air Force staff including Brigadier General James Mathers (Commanding General, Provide Comfort) at Haifa for Exercise Juniper Falconry II.[158] From 1–7 April, Monterey was underway for Juniper Falconry II, with a two-day port visit in Haifa on 3–4 April. From 7–9 April, Monterey visited Haifa again for exercise debriefs and to disembark the Joint Task Force.
    • Juniper Fox, Juniper Hawk,
    • Juniper Stallion – see Command History, USS Cape St. George (CG-71) for the year 2000, via http://history.navy.mil.
    • Juniper Micron – Airlift of French forces to combat Islamic extremists in Mali[14]
    • Juniper Nimbus – Support for Nigerian Forces against Boko Haram[14]
    • Operation Juniper Shield – Counterterrorism operations in the northwest African Sahara/Sahel.[14] formerly known as Operation Enduring Freedom – Trans Sahara (OEF-TS); name change occurred 2012–13, though OEF-TS was still be used at times in 2014. Closely linked with 'Flintlock' exercise.
  • Jupiter Garrett – Joint Special Operations Command operation against high value targets in Somalia.[14] Included Task Force 4-84 in 2011–2012.[78]
  • Operation Just Cause – 1989 invasion into Panama to oust Manuel Noriega.[159] Also connected were "Exercise Purple Storm" and "Sand Flea."
  • Operation Justice Reach
  • Justified Seamount – Counter piracy operation off east African coast[14]

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  • Exercise Keen Edge/Keen Sword – U.S./Japan defense of Japan exercise. Every two years, the US and Japan hold the Keen Sword exercise, the biggest military exercise around Japan. Japan, the United States and since 2024, Australia, participate, with Canada playing a smaller role.[160]
  • Keystone – Overall name for withdrawal of US forces from Vietnam (see also Banner)
    • Keystone Bluejay (Increment III) Withdrawal of 50,000 troops by 15 April 1970. Movement of 16th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron to Misawa Air Base and inactivation of 557th, 558th and 559th Tactical Fighter Squadrons.[161]
    • Keystone Cardinal (Increment II) Reduction of troop ceiling to 484,000 by 15 December 1969. Movement of U-10 and C-47 aircraft of 5th Special Operations Squadron to Korea.[162]
    • Keystone Eagle (Increment I) Reduction of troop ceiling to 534,500 in August 1969[162]
    • Keystone Oriole Alpha (Increment VII) Reduction of 100,000 by 1 December 1970[163]
    • Keystone Robin Alpha (Increments IV) reductions of 50,000 by 15 April 1971. 31st Tactical Fighter Wing moved to United States, 531st Tactical Fighter Squadron inactivated and planes returned to the United States, A-37s of the 8th and 90th Special Operations Squadrons turned over to the Vietnamese Air Force.[164]
    • Keystone Robin Bravo (Increment V) reductions of 40,000 by 15 April 1971. Return of 45th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron planes to the United States.[164]
    • Keystone Robin Charlie (Increment VI) 3 reductions of 50,000/ 40,000/ 60,000 by 15 April 1971[165]
  • Kodiak Hunter – Training of Kenyan forces for operations in Somalia[14]

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  • Left Hook – Deployment of Long Arm RB-47H and Ryan 147D drones to the Philippines. The drones were to locate SA-2 surface to air missile sites, which would then be attacked by fighter aircraft. Two drone launches in August 1965 were both shot down by ground fire. The project was abandoned and resources rolled into United Effort.[143]
  • Lightning Bug – Big Safari program to modify Ryan BQM-34 Firebee target drones to Model 147 Firefly special purpose drones.[143]
  • Lone Eagle – Design of longer range reconnaissance drone starting in 1966. Renamed Compass Arrow[66]
  • Long Arm – Project to fly Ryan 147 drones near SA-2 surface to air missile sites, transmitting ELINT to nearby Boeing RB-47H aircraft nearby, but out of range of the missiles. Planned for operation over Cuba in December 1962, but not deployed. Tested in 1965 with Ryan 147D drones. Deployed as Left Hook.[143]
  • Long Skip – Support for India in border dispute with China in Kashmir, 1962–1963[166]
  • Long Life – launch of LGM-30 Minuteman from 'live' launch facility with seven seconds of fuel.
  • Exercise Long Look – long-established individual exchange program between Commonwealth armies. For example, Captain Katie Hildred, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, was dispatched on Exercise Long Look in New Zealand in 2017, a four-month program that was planned to see her deploy on various exercises and training packages with the New Zealand Army.[167]
  • Operation Looking Glass – U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) then U.S. Strategic Command survivable airborne command post. The name came from the aircraft's ability to "mirror" the command and control functions of the underground command post at SAC headquarters. Began 1961.
  • Operation Louisville Slugger – 1971 RF-4C Phantom II reconnaissance north of the DMZ to locate North Vietnam Fan Song radar sites.[38]
  • Lucky Dragon – U-2E photographic reconnaissance missions flown from Clark Air Base, then from Bien Hoa Air Base over North Viet Nam, starting 14 February 1964. The missions provided intelligence for Military Assistance Command Vietnam and Pacific Command, and later included SIGINT. Renamed Trojan Horse in December 1964.[168]

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Wreck of abandoned ex-Iranian F-4E at Tallil Air Base, Iraq, 1991, investigated during Operation Night Harvest

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  • Operation Oaken Sonnet
    • Oaken Sonnet I – 2013 rescue of United States personnel from South Sudan during its civil war[14]
    • Oaken Sonnet II – 2014 operation in South Sudan[14]
    • Oaken Sonnet III – 2016 operation in South Sudan[14]
  • Oaken Steel – July 2016 to January 2017 deployment to Uganda and reinforcement of security forces at US embassy in South Sudan.
  • Objective Voice – Information operations and psychological warfare in Africa[14]
  • Oblique Pillar – private contractor helicopter support to U.S. Navy SEAL-advised units of the Somali National Army fighting al-Shabaab in Somalia. The operation was in existence as of February 2018. Bases used included Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti; Mombasa and Wajir, Kenya; Baidoa, Baledogle, Kismayo and Mogadishu, Somalia; Entebbe, Uganda.[14]
  • Old Fox – Minuteman III flight tests by the United States Air Force
  • Operation Observant Compass – initially attempts to kill Joseph Kony and eradicate the Lord's Liberation Army. In 2017, with around $780 million spent on the operation, and Kony still in the field, the United States wound down Observant Compass and shifted its forces elsewhere. But the operation didn't completely disband, according to the Defense Department: “forces supporting Operation Observant Compass transitioned to broader.. security and stability activities that continue the success of our African partners."[14][187]
  • Obsidian Lotus – Training Libyan special operations units[14]
  • Obsidian Mosaic – Operation in Mali.[14]
  • Obsidian Nomad I – Counterterrorism operation in Diffa, Niger[14]
  • Obsidian Nomad II – Counterterrorism operation in Arlit, Niger[14]
  • Octave Anchor – Psychological warfare operations focused on Somalia.[14]
  • Octave Shield – operation by Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa.[14]
  • Octave Soundstage – Psychological warfare operations focused on Somalia.[14]
  • Octave Stingray – Psychological warfare operations focused on Somalia.[14]
  • Octave Summit – Psychological warfare operations focused on Somalia.[14]
  • Operation Odyssey Dawn – air campaign against Libya, 2011.
  • Odyssey Lightning – Airstrikes on Sirte, Libya in 2016.[14]
  • Odyssey Resolve – Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance operations in area of Sirte, Libya.[14]
  • Oil Burner – Strategic Air Command low level bomber training. Replaced by Olive Branch.
  • Old Bar – Telemetry checks of the Ryan 147G flown with EB-47H October to November 1966 from Bien Hoa Air Base, South Vietnam. Operational missions against SA-2 sites may have also been flown.[188]
  • Olive Branch – Strategic Air Command low level bomber training. Replaced Oil Burner. Name later dropped and training areas called Instrument Routes or Visual Routes.
  • Olympic Defender – "U.S. space war plan", to be first shared with unspecified allies after a new version of the plan was promulgated in December 2018.[189]
  • During 1985 and 1986, in Operation "Onaway Eagle", the 76th Infantry Division successfully defined, established and executed the first United States Army Reserve mobilization army training center at Fort Campbell, Kentucky which became the model for utilization and employment of other Army reserve training divisions. During Operation Onaway Eagle, elements of the division successfully conducted Basic Combat Training for hundreds of new soldiers.
  • Exercise Open Gate – NATO air/naval exercise in the Mediterranean, late 1970s. 1979 iteration included No. 12 Squadron RAF deployment from Honington to RAF Gibraltar, carrying out the low-level anti-shipping mission.[190][191]
  • Olympic Arena III – Strategic Air Command missile competition of all nine operational missile units
  • Olympic Event – A Minuteman III nuclear operational systems test
  • Olympic Flame, Olympic Flare – associated with 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing Lockheed U-2 operations.
  • Olympic Play – A Strategic Air Command missiles and operational ground equipment program for EWO missions
  • Olympic Torch – U-2R COMINT system in Southeast Asia, renamed from Senior Book on 11 April 1972.[192]
  • Olympic Trials – A program to represent a series of launches having common objectives
  • Exercise Orient Shield – United States Army/JGSDF annual exercise

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  • Pacer Bravo – Project to furnish the Vietnamese Air Force with trainers and training aids for maintenance courses.[193]
  • Pacer Classic – 1985 program to upgrade Northrop T-38 trainer airframes and engines.[194]
  • Pacer Day – Modification of ten C-135Bs to WC-135B weather reconnaissance and atmospheric sampling aircraft by Hayes Industries in 1965.[195]
  • Operation Pacer Goose – annual resupply of Thule Air Base, Greenland, by a heavy supply ship each summer.[196] MV American Tern (T-AK-4729) made the trip in 2010.
  • Pacer Galaxy – Support of Minuteman force modification program
  • PACEX (Pacific Exercise) United States Pacific Fleet exercise series. PACEX '89 was the biggest peacetime exercise since the end of World War II. It was designed by Seventh Fleet "to determine the ability of US and allied naval forces to sustain high tempo combat operations for an extended period."[197] Three aircraft carrier battle groups, and two different battleship battle groups, gathered off the U.S. West Coast, proceeded through the Gulf of Alaska and the Pacific Ocean to Japan, and merged to conducted Battle Force operations against "opposing" USAF and JASDF and Navy as ANNUALEX 01G. USS Antietam (CG-54) served as the "..Anti-Air Warfare Coordinator for her successive battle groups and as alternate AAWC for the entire Battle Force. Steaming into the Sea of Japan, Antietam was also the AAWC for the Amphibious Task Force as they made their assault on the South Korean beach as Exercise VALIANT BLITZ 90."[197] Test of Maritime Strategy. See also Lehman, John (May 2018). Oceans Ventured: Winning the Cold War at Sea. W. W. Norton & Company. Also PACEX 02.[198]
  • Pacific Bond – U.S.-Australian army reserve exchange
  • Pacific Castle – Pacific naval exercise
  • Pacific Haven – emergency evacuation of pro-U.S. Kurds to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, September 1996-April 1997.
  • Pacific Horizon – WMD exercise
  • Pacific Kukri – UK–NZ exercise, 2000–2001
  • Pacific Look – U.S.–Australian army reserve exchange, 1997
  • Pacific Nightingale – Pacific Air Forces exercise, South Korea
  • Exercise Pacific Partnership
  • Pacific Protector – Proliferation Security Initiative exercise involving Japanese-flagged merchant ship simulating carrying WMD.
  • Pacific Reserve
  • Pacific Spectrum
  • Pacific Warrior – SPAWAR telemedicine exercise connected to South Korea
  • Pacific Wind
  • Palace Lightning – USAF withdrawal of its aircraft and personnel from Thailand.
  • Paladin Hunter – Counterterrorism operation in Puntland,[14] probably referring to U.S. support for Puntland Security Force
  • Patricia Lynn – RB-57E Canberra reconnaissance missions in Southeast Asia, starting 1963-1970, primarily using infrared sensors[3]
  • Pave – USAF first word relating to electronic systems
    • Pave Aegis – Refit of AC-130 gunships with a 105mm cannon[3]
    • Pave Eagle – Modified Beechcraft Bonanza drone aircraft for low altitude sensor monitoring.
    • Pave Hawk – Sikorsky HH-60 Pave Hawk special operations and combat search and rescue helicopter.
    • Pave Knife – Ford Aerospace AN/AVQ-10 Pave Knife early laser targeting pod.
    • Pave Low – Sikorsky MH-53 Pave Low special ops and combat search and rescue helicopter.
    • Pave Mint – Upgrade of the AN/ALQ-117 electronic warfare system to the AN/ALQ-172.
    • Pave Mover – Demonstration program to develop the AN/APY-7 radar wide-area surveillance, ground moving target indicator (GMTI), fixed target indicator (FTI) target classification, and synthetic aperture radar (SAR), for the E-8 Joint STARS.
    • Pave Nail – OV-10 Bronco with Pave Spot target laser designator pod.
    • Pave Onyx – Vietnam era Advanced Location Strike System c.1973.[199]
    • Pave Pace – A fully integrated avionics architecture featuring functional resource allocation.
    • Pave Paws – The Phased-Array Warning System which replaced the three BMEWS radars. Pave in this case is a backronym for Perimeter[200] or Precision Acquisition Vehicle Entry.[201]
    • Pave Penny – Lockheed-Martin AN/AAS-35(V) laser spot tracker.
    • Pave Pepper – An Air Force SAMSO (Space & Missile Systems Organization) project to decrease the size of the Minuteman III warheads and allow for more to be launched by one Minuteman.
    • Pave Pillar – Generic core avionics architecture system for combat aircraft.
    • Pave Pronto – Lockheed AC-130 Spectre gunship program.
    • Pave Spectre – Lockheed AC-130E gunships[3]
    • Pave Spot – Laser designator pod
    • Pave Spike – Westinghouse AN/ASQ-153\AN/AVQ-23 electro-optical laser designator pod.
    • Pave Sword – AN/AVQ-11 Pave Sword laser tracker.
    • Pave Tack – Ford Aerospace AN/AVQ-26 electro-optical targeting pod. Used first on F-4 and then later on F-111F model aircraft.
    • Pave Way
  • PANAMAX – exercise to defend the Panama Canal. Held 2005 and in 2006, under the leadership of Commander, United States Naval Forces Southern Command.[202]
  • Peace Atlas II
  • Peace Crown – air defense automation study for Imperial Iranian Air Force (Foreign Military Sales), effective 3 August 1972, LGFX.[203]
  • Peace Echo –Training of Israeli Air Force aircrew and maintenance personnel on the McDonnell F-4E Phantom II.[204]
  • Peace Fortress – delivery of AN/TPS-43E radars to Sudan, effective date 25 January 1978.[205]
  • Peace Hawk – Foreign Military Sales case for Northrop F-5B/E aircraft, effective date 8 September 1971, USAF implementing organization SMS/AC.[203]
  • Peace Hercules – Foreign Military Sales of Lockheed C-130H aircraft for the Congo, effective date 11 September 1973, implementing organization SMSAC.[203]
  • Peace Icarus – Foreign Military Sales of McDonnell Douglas F-4E aircraft for Greece, effective date 3 April 1972, USAF implementing organization LGFXR.[203]
  • Peace Inca – Northrop F-5s for Peru, effective date 8 February 1973, LGFXR.[203]
  • Peace Start – Later name for Peace Hawk.[72]
  • Phoenix Banner – "Special Air Mission", air transportation of the president of the United States, aircraft usually codenamed Air Force One. The basic procedures for such flights are stipulated in Air Force Instruction #11-289.[206]
  • Phoenix Duke I and II – involved NATO efforts to resettle ethnic Albanians into a secure environment as part of the peace agreement with Serbia, 1999, with participation of 433rd Airlift Wing.[207]
  • Phoenix Copper – flights flown in support of the Secret Service for VIPs other than the president and vice president.[206]
  • Operation Phoenix Jackal – Support for Saudi Arabian and Kuwait against Iraq in 1994
  • Phoenix Oak – See Coronet Oak. Operation name when directed by Air Combat Command 1992–?
  • Phoenix Raven program involves specially trained United States Air Force Security Forces airmen flying with and protecting Air Mobility Command aircraft around the world, in areas where there is "inadequate security."[208]
  • Operations Phoenix Scorpion I & II 1997–1998, also phases III and IV. Deployment of additional troops and equipment to Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the Middle East during 'Desert Thunder' confrontation with Iraq.[209] In 1998 the 433rd Airlift Wing participated in Phoenix Scorpions I – III.[210] Phoenix Scorpion IV involved David Grant USAF Medical Center.[211]
  • Phoenix Silver designates a Special Air Mission flight involving the Vice President of the United States.[206]
  • Operation Pierce Arrow – US Navy retaliatory strike on 5 August 1964 following the Gulf of Tonkin incident[3]
  • Project Phyllis Ann – Deployment of Douglas RC-47 Skytrain aircraft equipped with AN/ARD-18 airborne radio direction finding equipment to locate enemy units.[99] Renamed Project Compass Dart in Spring 1967[69]
  • Pie Face – Boeing C-97G Stratofreighter equipped with photographic reconnaissance ewuipment
  • Pipe Stem – 1961 detachment of RF-101 Voodoos at Tan Son Nhut Airport[3]
  • Exercise Pitch Black – air exercise held in northern Australia
  • Polo Hat – nuclear command and control exercise
  • Polo Step (code name) – classified as Top Secret, Polo Step was a United States Department of Defense code name or ‘compartment’ that was initially created in the late 1990s to designate closely held planning information on covert operations against Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. A person could have a Top Secret clearance, but if they would not have a need to know about the planning as well, they did not have a ‘Polo Step’ authorization. Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, ‘Polo Step’ started to be used by United States Central Command to be the planning compartment for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
  • Operation Pocket Money – Mining of Haiphong harbor starting in May 1972.[192]
  • Operation Pony Express – was the covert transportation of, and the provision of aerial support for, indigenous soldiers and material operating across the Laotian and North Vietnamese borders during the Vietnam War.[212][213]
  • Exercise Port Call 86 – A Joint Chiefs of Staff sponsored command post exercise carried out 12–22 November 1985 (CENTCOM Command History 1985 via https://www3.centcom.mil/FOIALibrary/Search, p. 100).
  • Operation Power Flite – a United States Air Force mission in which three Boeing B-52 Stratofortresses became the first jet aircraft to circle the world nonstop, when they made the journey in January 1957 in 45 hours and 19 minutes, using in-flight refueling to stay aloft. The mission was intended to demonstrate that the United States had the ability to drop a hydrogen bomb anywhere in the world.[214]
  • Operation Power Pack – Intervention in the Dominican Republic following 1965 military coup.[215]
  • Operation Prairie Fire – 1986 strikes on Libya
  • Operation Prairie Fire – Clandestine operation in Laos by the Studies and Observation Group for strike control and bomb damage assessment. Renamed from Operation Dewey Canyon[3]
  • Prayer Book – Gradual buildup of US forces in Panama Canal Zone during 1989, preliminary to Operation Just Cause.[216]
  • Operation Prime Chance – special operations forces operating off U.S. Navy vessels in the Persian Gulf, mid-1980s.
  • Operation Prize Bull – September 1971 trikes against North Vietnamese POL storage sites [38]
  • Promise Kept – International Committee of the Red Cross facilitated visit to the crash site of Scott Speicher, Iraq, 1995.[217]
  • Operation Proud Bunch – Plan to strike hard logistics sites in North Vietnam within 35 miles of the DMZ. Combined with Operation Fracture Deep as Operation Proud Deep.[38]
  • Operation Proud Deep – Combined Operation Fracture Deep and Operation Proud Bunch to strike Vietnam People's Air Force bases and logistics sites south of 18th parallel.[38]
  • Operation Proud Deep Alpha – Extension of Operation Proud Deep to targets south of 20th parallel.[38]
  • Proud Phantom – unprogrammed tactical deployment ordered by Secretary of Defense/JCS, not part of the regular exercise program, in which 12 F-4E Phantom IIs and at least 400 personnel were dispatched to Cairo West Air Base, Egypt, during FY 80.
  • Proven Force – northern air campaign from Turkey over Iraq in 1991. General Jamerson activated JTF Proven Force at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. The task force had three component organizations: Commander Air Force Forces (later to be mostly the 7440th Composite Wing (Prov)), Commander Army Forces, and Commander Joint Special Operations Task Force, which would seek and rescue downed allied pilots.[218]
  • Provide – EUCOM humanitarian assistance operations first word
  • Purple – British joint exercise prefix
  • Purple Dragon – joint forced entry operations. Purple Dragon 00/Roving Sands 00, Fort Bragg and Puerto Rico; Purple Dragon 98/JTFEX 98–1, Fort Bragg and Puerto Rico, Jan-Feb. 1998.
  • Exercise Purple Star/Royal Dragon – held in April–May 1996, the exercise brought together the XVIII Airborne Corps and the 82nd Airborne Division (both from the United States), 5th Airborne Brigade (British Army), the U.S. Air Force, the Royal Air Force, the U.S. Marines, 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines[222] and the Royal Navy. It saw the deployment of 5th Airborne Brigade to North Carolina in the largest Anglo-American exercise for twenty-three years. Relieved from the back-to-back commitment of aircraft carriers to the Adriatic in support of UNPROFOR, the Royal Navy sent a large force, headed by a Carrier Task Group with HMS Invincible flying the flag of Rear Admiral Alan West, Commander UK Task Group; HMS Fearless and an amphibious group; and a mine countermeasures group headed by HMS Hecla.[223] U.S. Atlantic Command, headquartered at Norfolk, Virginia, directed the exercise. The aim of the operation was to practise a joint UK force in combined manoeuver in an overseas theatre. The exercise provided the first opportunity to test the new UK Permanent Joint Headquarters, which provided the core of the British Joint Headquarters in support of the exercise Joint Commander.[224] The exercise also was designed to test the new UK Joint Rapid Deployment Force which was established on 1 August 1996. A description of 1st Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division's experience during Royal Dragon can be found in Tom Clancy, Airborne: A Guided Tour of an Airborne Task Force, Berkley Books, New York, 1997, 222–228.
  • Purple Guardian – U.S. homeland defense exercise
  • Purple Horizon – Cyprus, 2005.[225]
  • Purple Solace – 4-6 Jun 2013 Three officers from the Combined Joint Operations from the Sea Center of Excellence (CJOS COE) supported the U.S. Joint Forces Staff College's Exercise “Purple Solace” as mentors. This exercise is a 3-day faculty guided planning exercise which reinforces the initial steps necessary to derive a mission statement and a commander's intent (end state) and a limited Concept of Operations in response to a series of natural disasters.
  • Exercise Purple Sound – A high level computer assisted exercise designed to support the training of the Command and Staff of the Permanent Joint Headquarters which deploys and commands the Joint Rapid Deployment Force.
  • Exercise Purple Storm – a series of United States Southern Command, or United States Army South, exercises in Panama in 1989 that aimed to both assert United States treaty rights and to conduct tactical rehearsals for Operation Just Cause.[226] These exercises were carried out, according to the Department of Defense, to protect the integrity of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties of 1977.[227] Purple Storm was part of the Prayer Book series of plans created as relations between Panama and the US deteriorated.[228] (CMH 55-5-1)
  • Exercise Purple Warrior

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  • Quick Fox – Electronic intelligence missions flown from MacDill Air Force Base, Florida near Cuba by C-130s under Strategic Air Command control until November 1962, then transferred to Tactical Air Command.[229]
  • Operation Quick Lift 1995 – Support of NATO Rapid Reaction Force and Croatia forces deployment to Bosnia-Herzegovina.
  • Quick Shot – training activity by 49th Air Division while in United Kingdom, period 1952–56.[230] Other training missions included Kingpin and Bear Claw.

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  • Rainmaker – Turse and Naylor write that this United States Africa Command codename refers to "A highly sensitive classified signals intelligence effort. Bases used: Chebelley, Djibouti; Baidoa, Baledogle, Kismayo and Mogadishu, Somalia."[14]
  • Operation Ranch Hand – UC-123 Defoliation and crop destruction missions in Vietnam and Laos[231]
  • Rapid Trident – Exercise Rapid Trident '14, held in Lviv, Ukraine, near the border with Poland was to “promote regional stability and security, strengthen partnership capacity, and foster trust while improving interoperability between USAREUR, the land forces of Ukraine, and other (NATO and partner) nations,” according to the USAREUR website.[17]
  • Operation Ready Swap – Use of reserve units to transport aircraft engines between Air Materiel Command's depots.[232]
  • Exercise Real Thaw – an annual exercise run by the Portuguese Air Force with the participation of the Army and Navy and foreign military forces. The exercise has the objective of creating a realistic as possible operational environment in which Portuguese forces might participate, provide joint training with both land, air and naval forces, and provide interoperability between different countries.[233]
  • Reaper Smoke – Annual competition among General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper units,[234]
  • Operation Red Hat – publicly acknowledged part of this operation involved relocation of chemical and biological weapons stored in Okinawa to Johnston Atoll for destruction. Most of the operation took place at night, to avoid observation of the operation by the Okinawans, who resented the presence of chemical munitions on the island. The chemical weapons consisted of rockets, mines, artillery projectiles, and bulk 1-ton containers filled with Sarin, Agent VX, vomiting agent, and blister agent such as mustard gas. There are indications that the codename was also used to designate storage and/or testing of chemical and biological agents on Okinawa in the 1960s, connected with Project 112.
  • Reef Point – first designation for specially equipped Lockheed P-3 Orion long range maritime patrol aircraft, operated by VPU-1 and VPU-2 (Patrol Squadron, Special Projects), U.S. Navy.[152]
  • Exercise Reforger – Return of Forces to Germany (Cold War).
  • Joint Task Force Resolute Response (1998) – United States Central Command response to U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya.[235][236]
  • Operation Resolute Support – NATO non-combat advisory and training mission to support the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan from 2015 onwards.
  • Operation Restore Hope – U.S. participation in UNOSOM II, 1992–1994, Somalian humanitarian aid and security efforts.[221]
  • Resultant Fury – DoD activity in November 2004 which included the weapons testing of free-fall bombs against decommissioned USN vessels off Hawaii.
  • Operation Riders Up – Movement of Strategic Air Command units from their Florida bases (Homestead, McCoy, MacDill) to make room for forward based Tactical Air Command units during the Cuban Missile Crisis.[237]
  • Exercise RIMPAC – Rim of the Pacific Exercise, large-scale U.S. Pacific Fleet activity with allied involvement.
  • Rivet Acorn – Special purpose Big Safari C-130E program (1975)[238]
  • Rivet Add – Modification of Minuteman-II launch facilities to hold Minuteman III missiles
  • Rivet Amber – one of a kind Boeing RC-135E reconnaissance aircraft equipped with a large 7 MW Hughes Aircraft phased-array radar system.[239] Originally designated C-135B-II, project name Lisa Ann.
  • Rivet Ball – Special purpose Big Safari program[240]
  • Rivet Bounce – Special purpose Big Safari program[241]
  • Rivet Bounder – Special purpose Big Safari program[242]
  • Rivet Box – Special purpose Big Safari program[243]
  • Rivet Brass – Special purpose Big Safari program[244]
  • Rivet Can – Special purpose Big Safari program[245]
  • Rivet Card – Special purpose Big Safari program[246]
  • Rivet Cap – 1981-1984 decommissioning of Titan II intercontinental ballistic missiles[247]
  • Rivet Chip – Special purpose Big Safari program[248]
  • Rivet Clamp – Special purpose Big Safari program[249]
  • Rivet Dandy – Special purpose Big Safari program[250]
  • Rivet Digger – Special purpose Big Safari program[251]
  • Rivet Doctor – Special purpose Big Safari program[252]
  • Rivet Duke – Special purpose C-130E program (1975)[253]
  • Rivet Eagle – Special purpose Big Safari program[254]
  • Rivet Fire – Special purpose Big Safari program[255]
  • Rivet Flare – Special purpose Big Safari program[256]
  • Rivet Flash – Special purpose Big Safari program[257]
  • Rivet Giant – Special purpose Big Safari program[258]
  • Rivet Gumbo – Special purpose Big Safari program[259]
  • Rivet Gym – Special purpose Big Safari program[260]
  • Rivet Jaw – Special purpose Big Safari program[261]
  • Rivet Joint – Special purpose RC-135 Big Safari program[262]
  • Rivet Kit – Special purpose C-130E program (1976)[263]
  • Rivet Kite – Special purpose Big Safari program[264]
  • Rivet Lass – Special purpose Big Safari program[265]
  • Rivet Lock – Special purpose Big Safari program[266]
  • Rivet Mile – Minuteman Integrated Life Extension. Included IMPSS[jargon] security system upgrade.
  • Rivet Pusher – Special purpose Big Safari program[267]
  • Rivet Quick – Special purpose Big Safari program[268]
  • Rivet Rap – Special purpose Big Safari program[269]
  • Rivet Rider – Volant Solo EC-130Es Psychological warfare aircraft with full suite of electronic combat equipment.[63]
  • Rivet Save – A Minuteman crew sleep program modification to reduce personnel number
  • Rivet Slice – Special purpose Big Safari program[270]
  • Rivet Stand – KC-135R Big Safari program
  • Rivet Switch – A 1970s program to upgrade VHF and UHF air/ground communications to solid state devices.
  • Project Rocky Mountain – Study of the use of liquid deuterium in nuclear weapons,[79]
  • Operation Rolling Thunder Air strikes on North Vietnam[3]
  • Rugged Nautilus '96 – a joint service exercise aimed at discouraging any possible terrorist challenges through a show of force in the Gulf while the 1996 Atlanta Olympics were underway. Also described as "..a USAF-Navy exercise to test US Central Command's ability to gather and organize forces quickly in theater."[271]
The tank landing ship ex-USS Schenectady lists after being struck by seven 2,000lb Joint Direct Attack Munitions during exercise Resultant Fury at the Pacific Missile Range Facility off the Island of Kauai, Hawaii, on Nov. 23, 2004.

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  • Exercise Saber Guardian – July 2016 exercise involving 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team (ARNG) and troop elements from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Canada, Georgia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Ukraine and the U.S.[272]
  • Saber Safe – Minuteman pre-launch survivability program
  • Saber Secure – A Minuteman rebasing program
  • Safari Hunter – 2017 operation in Somalia with SNA/Jubaland striking north from Kismayo against Al-Shabaab centered in Middle Juba.[273] "Hunter" series shows Somali National Army Danab participation.
Personnel from the Air National Guard and Ukrainian Air Force group-greet each other during SAFE SKIES 2011
  • Exercise Safe Skies – 2011 Ukrainian, Polish and American air forces fly-together to help prepare the Polish and Ukrainians for enhanced air supremacy and air sovereignty operations. Envisaged as helping lead up to Ukraine hosting Euro 2012. California Air National Guard began preparing the event in 2009 via the State Partnership Program.
  • Exercise Sage Brush – November–December 1955 joint U.S. Army/Air Force exercise at Fort Polk, Louisiana, lasting forty-five days.[274] Involved 110,000 Army and 30,500 Air Force personnel to trial army airmobility concepts to try to settle a dispute over the matter by the Army and Air Force. Some helicopter lift provided by the special 516th Troop Carrier Group, Assault, Rotary Wing, flying Piasecki H-21s as part of the 20th Combat Airlift Division (Provisional).
McDonnell Douglas F-4G Phantom II of the 52nd TFW based at Spangdahlem AB in Germany, seen taking part in the exercise 'Salty Hammer', 22 May 1990
  • Saharan Express – AFRICOM Naval Forces Africa scheduled and conducted, multilateral combined maritime exercises with West and North African states, supported by European partners, focusing on maritime security, and domain awareness. Saharan Express 2012 was to be held 23–30 April 2012.[8]
  • Operation Sand Flea – A series of training exercises the December 1989 invasion of Panama by the United States. These practices were conducted in part as training to defend the Panama Canal (a contingency then called Purple Storm), but were also intended simply to affirm the right of the US military to engage in them.[159] Conducted in the summer of 1989, these seemingly endless movements, also known as "Freedom of Movement Drills," overwhelmed the ability of the Panamanians to observe, analyze and understand the activities. In this way, this program desensitized the Panama Defense Force (PDF) to the coming invasion.
  • Exercise Salty Hammer – NATO air defense exercise, including sorties flown over the UK.
  • Operation Secure Tomorrow – A multinational peace operation that took place from February 2004 to July 2004 in Haiti.
  • Seed Hawk X-Ray – 1971 program to modify Wild Weasel aircraft to operate the AGM-78B Standard ARM[38]
  • In 1977 the Rome Air Development Center (RADC) began the "Seek Igloo" project to find a replacement for the FPS-19 that would require less power and would run for extended times without maintenance. In 1980, General Electric won the contest with their GE-592 design, and the final design was accepted by RADC on 30 September 1983 and passed acceptance tests that year. This system became the AN/FPS-117 radar. Seek Igloo was officially concerned only with the radars in the Alaska area, while Seek Frost addressed the rest of the DEW Line.
  • Senior Ball – Shipment of material directed by USAF.
  • Senior Blade – Senior Year ground station (a van capable of exploiting U-2R digital imagery).
  • Senior Blue – Air-to-Air Anti-Radiation Missile (?)
  • Senior Book – U-2R COMINT system, used on flights from Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base over the Gulf of Tonkin. First flight 17 August 1971. Information was downloaded in real time to a ground station at Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Navy Base for relay to USAF fighters operating in Southeast Asia. Renamed Olympic Torch 11 April 1972.[275]
  • Senior Bowl – 2 B-52Hs, serials 60-21 and 60–36, modified to carry two Lockheed D-21B "Tagboard" reconnaissance drones
  • Senior Cejay – Northrop B-2A stealth bomber, former Senior Ice (name changed when the development contract was awarded to Northrop on 4 November 1981). Sometimes quoted as Senior CJ.
  • Senior Chevron – Senior Year-related program.
  • Senior Citizen – Classified program; probably a projected Special Operations stealth and/or STOL transport aircraft. Arkin writes that this was an Aurora reconnaissance aircraft or similar low observable system (Arkin, 495).
  • Senior Class – Shipment of material directed by Headquarters USAF.
  • Senior Club – Low-observable anti-tamper advanced technology systems assessment.
  • Senior Crown – Lockheed SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft,[3] based on CIA-sponsored A-12 "Oxcart"
  • Senior Dagger – A test & evaluation exercise performed by Control Data Corp. for Air Force Rome Air Development Center for purposes of reconnaissance. It may involve flights of Lockheed SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft in Southeast Asia.
  • Senior Dance – ELINT/SIGINT program, possibly U-2 related.
  • Senior Game – A military item shipping designation.
  • Senior Glass – U-2 SIGINT sensor package upgrade combing Senior Spear and Senior Ruby
  • Senior Guardian – Grob/E-Systems D-500 Egrett, high-altitude surveillance / reconnaissance aircraft, German-US cooperation, 1980s
  • Senior Ice – Advanced Technology Bomber program, including Lockheed proposal and the Northrop B-2 stealth bomber; renamed Senior Cejay on 4 November 1981
  • Senior Peg – proposal for a stealthy strategic bomber by the Lockheed Corporation together with Rockwell International. It was created as part of the Advanced Technology Bomber competition, which started in 1979.[276] Lost to a design by Northrop (Senior Ice), which would eventually become the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit.
  • Senior Prom – classified black project conducted by the United States Air Force in conjunction with the Lockheed Corporation's Skunk Works for the development and testing of a cruise missile using stealth technology, 1978–82.
  • Senior Trend – Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk special access program development, previously Have Blue (Arkin, 496).
  • Sentinel Alloy – Land gravity surveys in support of the Minuteman system, cancelled
  • Sentinel Aspen – Upgrades in intelligence training, particularly the General Imagery Intelligence Training System.[277]
  • Sentinel Lock – Development of raster annotated photography by Aeronautical Charting and Information Service for mapping in Southeast Asia.[38]
Six F-16s of the Texas Air National Guard traveled to Hawaii for Exercise Sentry Aloha in 2006.

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  • Exercise Talisman Saber
  • Operation Tally Ho – Interdiction operations in Route Package 1, southern part of North Viet Nam[3]
  • Tamale Pete – Vietnam War air refueling operations planning. See Young Tiger.
  • Tandem Thrust – in 2005, Exercise Tandem Thrust, along with Exercises Crocodile and Kingfisher, was combined to form Exercise Talisman Saber.
  • Teal Ruby – STS-62-A was a planned Space Shuttle mission to deliver a reconnaissance payload (Teal Ruby) into polar orbit
  • Exercise Teamwork – A major NATO biennial exercise in defense of Norway against a Soviet land and maritime threat. It was established by Norway, Denmark, the UK and the U.S. in 1982 and grew considerably up until the early 1990s. Teamwork '88 allowed NATO to evaluate its ability to conduct a maritime campaign in the Norwegian Sea and project forces ashore in northern Norway. Teamwork '92 was the largest NATO exercise for more than a decade.[286] Held in the northern spring of 1992, it included a total of over 200 ships and 300 aircraft, held in the North Atlantic. Vice Admiral Nicholas Hill-Norton, Flag Officer, Surface Flotilla, led the RN contingent as Commander, Anti-Submarine Warfare Striking Force (CASWF), with Commodore Amphibious Warfare (COMAW) embarked in HMS Fearless.[287]
  • Tempest Express – United States Pacific Command computer-assisted exercise to train the HQ USPACOM staff to function as a Joint Task Force headquarters. The exercise is held as often as needed, three to seven times a year.[286] Tempest Express 2013 involved elements of the PACOM command post traveling to New Zealand to carry out a disaster relief exercise.
  • Tempest Rapid – Employment of DOD resources in natural disaster emergencies in the Continental United States.
  • Thracian Star – Combined exercises with the Bulgarian Air Force, name is followed by year of exercsise.[288]
  • Operation Tiger Hound – Air interdiction operations in the Steel Tiger area of Laos[3]
  • Trojan Horse – Replacement name for Lucky Dragon operations starting in December 1964. After Operation Rolling Thunder began in March 1965, U-2 flights were restricted from surface to air missile sites. The name changed to Giant Dragon on 1 July 1967.[289]
  • Tropic Moon III – Martin B-57G fitted with Low Light Television and other sensors for night operations[3]

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  • Ulchi-Freedom Guardian – previously Ulchi Focus Lens. Command post/computerised exercise simulating the defense of South Korea.
  • Ultimate Hunter – "A 127e counterterrorism program using a U.S.-trained, equipped and directed Ugandan force in Somalia."[14] The base mentioned was Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti.
  • Union Flash – Simulation exercise, annual, 1998: USAFE Warrior Preparation Center, Einsiedlerhof AFS, Germany, 05/1998.[290]
  • United Effort – Use of Ryan 147E drones and Boeing RB-47H to gather ELINT on SA-2 sites in North Viet Nam. First missions flown 16 October 1965. Fourth mission successfully captured the fusing signal before being hit by the SA-2. With the critical information obtained and all drones lost, the operation was terminated in February 1966 and the B-47s returned to Forbes Air Force Base.[291]
  • Operation United Shield 1995 – Support of US withdrawal from Somalia.
  • Operation Unified Resolve
  • Upgrade Silo – A modification improvement program for Minuteman III.
  • Upgun Cobras – A Bell Huey Cobra with a Sperry helmet-mounted optical gunsight.[290]
  • Operation Uphold Democracy—removal of junta in Haiti[292]
  • Upper Hand – A joint U.S.-Norwegian exercise designed to promote proficiency in Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), underway logistic support, and communications procedures.[290]
  • Operation Urgent Fury — United States invasion of Grenada, 25–29 October 1983.[293]

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  • Valiant Blitz – 1990 iteration amphibious exercise landing in South Korea, part of larger PACEX 89.[197]
  • Exercise Valiant Shield – United States Pacific Command large-scale warfighting exercise
  • Exercise Valiant Usher 86 – a declassified U.S. Central Command historical document[294] said that: 'Valiant Usher 86 was conducted in Somalia from 1 to 7 November 1985. Initially planned to be an amphibious, combined/joint exercise including the Mediterranean Marine Amphibious Unit/Amphibious Ready Group (ARG)and [Somali] forces, the exercise was completely restructured when the ARG was retained in the Mediterranean and replaced with a battalion (-) of the 101st Airborne Division. In spite of limited planning time, the exercise was described as a "total success", highlighting both the rapid capability.. to substitute forces, as well as the flexibility of the forces to accomplish assigned objectives.'
  • Victory Scrimmage – V Corps multi-divisional exercise of January–February 2003 to prepare for Operation Iraqi Freedom
  • Exercise Vigilant Eagle – NORAD/Russian Armed Forces exercise, repeated several times, involving response to a simulated hijacked airliner over Canadian/U.S./Russian airspace.
  • Operation Vigilant Warrior 1994 – Response to Iraqi buildup along Kuwait border.
  • Volant Oak – See Coronet Oak. Operation name when directed by Military Airlift Command from 1977 to 1992
  • Volant Solo – Coronet Solo renamed when EC-130Es replaced EC-121s as psychological warfare aircraft.[63]
  • Exercise Vortex Warrior – RAF Chinook exercise for desert operations in preparation for Afghan deployments at the U.S. Naval Air Facility El Centro, in Imperial County, Southern California. 2014, planned 2018.

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Chinook helicopters from No. 18 (B) Squadron RAF practising desert operations during Exercise Vortex Warrior '14, April 2014.

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