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The 414th Combat Training Squadron conducts Red Flag exercises to provide aircrews the experience of multiple, intensive air combat sorties in the safety of a training environment. There are three iterations of Red Flag annually, one U.S. only, one open to FVEY (Five Eyes) participants and one that welcomes an expanded roster of international allies and partners. The training occurs at Nellis AFB, Nevada on the NTTR, the U.S. Air Force’s premier military training area with more than 12,000 square miles of airspace and 2.9 million acres of land.

Red Flag was established in 1975 as the brainchild of Lt. Col. Richard “Moody” Suter and one of the initiatives directed by General Robert J. Dixon, then commander of Tactical Air Command, to better prepare our forces for combat. Lessons from Vietnam showed that if a pilot survived his first 10 combat missions, his probability of survival for the remaining missions increased substantially. Red Flag was designed to expose each “Blue 4” aircrew to the first 10 “combat missions” here at Nellis, allowing combat aircrews to be more confident and effective in actual combat. This same principle continues to guide Red Flag today, with the goal of preparing Air Force, Joint, and Coalition pilots, aircrew, and operators to fight against a peer-level adversary in any combat environment.

Red Flag is a contested combat training exercise involving the air forces of the United States and its allies. It is coordinated at Nellis Air Force Base(AFB), Nevada, and conducted on the vast bombing and gunnery ranges of the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR). It is one of a series of advanced training programs administered by the United States Air Force Warfare Center and Nellis AFB, NV.