Buckeye II: Ready for the fight
A Reserve Citizen Airman with the 910th Airlift Wing quickly dawns his mission-oriented protective posture gear before a simulated aerial attack, Nov. 3, 2024, during Combat Readiness Exercise Buckeye II at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio. 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 aggressors. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Noah J. Tancer)