 Exercise, Rainier Kraken, is a pre-planned readiness exercise led by the 446th Airlift Wing, designed to evaluate the ability of Air Force reservists and Air National Guardsmen assigned to the 194th Wing to generate, employ, and sustain air operations in a simulated environment. Exercises like this that we're doing right now are important to the mission readiness for our troops and members to be able to get the hands-on training that they need for real world deployments. Missions included in this readiness exercise are deployment processing, aerial port operations, and command and control. The exercise is designed to demonstrate both wings ability to operate and survive in a contested environment while defeating challenges to the U.S. military advantage in all operating domains. A lot of these exercises, there's a plan laid out, there's things that we've got to execute, there's steps to it, and I think the most important thing to realize is it's not always going to go as planned. It's important for the Guard and the Reserve to exercise together because deploy, we all have the same mission, whether we're in Alaska or in Florida, the spec sets up the same, the overall mission is the same. Through pre-planned exercises like Rainier Kraken, the Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard Airmen hone their readiness and effectiveness so they can support the nation with air power anytime, anywhere. Reporting from Joint Base Lewis McCord, Washington, I'm Senior Airman Chris Summers.