Buckeye II: Ready for the fight
A C-130H Hercules aircraft assigned to the 910th Airlift Wing takes off, Nov. 4, 2024, from Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, during Combat Readiness Exercise Buckeye II. A combat readiness exercise is a wing-planned, executed and inspected operationally relevant exercise intended to inform commanders of their unit’s ability to accomplish the mission in a realistic scenario against peer or near-peer adversaries. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Noah J. Tancer)