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  • IDLC25: Contested Airdrop

    The Integrated Defense Leadership Course is an intensely focused, two-week, hands-on training program for Air Force Security Forces Defenders to achieve and maintain combat readiness. It is based at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, and uses training grounds at nearby Camp James A. Garfield

  • Partners in readiness: Grenade familiarization

    Staff Sgt. Justin Herod, a member of the 910th Security Forces Squadron, and Tech. Sgt. Ryan Cisneros, Integrated Defense Leadership Course cadre member, take cover as a grenade thrown by Herod detonates. Members of Youngstown Air Reserve Station's 910th Airlift Wing, the Ohio Army National Guard

  • Video: Tactical Combat Casualty Care

    Integrated Defense Leadership Course students learn Tactical Combat Casualty Care skills and practice them in a high-stress environment during the July 2023 course at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio.

  • Molding resilient Defenders

    More than 25 Reserve Citizen Defenders with the 459th Security Forces Squadron, Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, participated in the Integrated Defense Leadership Course from March 13-26, 2023, at Camp James A. Garfield Joint Military Training Center and Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio.

  • From students to cadre

    Security forces Defenders from multiple units across Air Force Reserve Command participated in a four-mile ruck march on March 6, 2023, at Boston Mill, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio.

  • IDLC: Forging Reserve Defenders

    The Integrated Defense Leadership Course is based at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, and uses training grounds at CJAG. IDLC was designed to provide Reserve Defenders with intensely focused hands-on training to achieve and maintain combat readiness.

  • Integrated Defense Leadership Course: 446th SFS

    Air Force Reserve Command Defenders assigned to the 446th Security Forces Squadron, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, completed the two-week Integrated Defense Leadership Course, based at YARS and using training grounds at CJAG, in March 2022.