 The path to becoming a successful F-16 fighter pilot is a long and challenging process. Student pilots can experience training events that simulate real-world missions such as Operation Coronet Cactus. Coronet Cactus is an annual training event that deploys members of the 149th Fighter Wing to another environment in order to familiarize them with accomplishing mission objectives in a foreign location. The Coronet Cactus is a unique temporary duty assignment that we get to fly out here in southern Arizona to utilize some airspace and some range regulations that we do not have the ability to in central Texas and allow us to really maximize on some fantastic weather and some fantastic flying ability. The difficulty of dropping live bombs in ammunition makes it essential that the whole 149th Fighter Wing works together to achieve mission success. So what makes a successful cactus is the force integration of all the different Air Force Specialties. So we have about 250 people here at Cactus and so everyone from ammo to maintenance all the way up to medical and then you have the actual pilots who are conducting the mission themselves. We also have a few finance people here and so it takes the whole wing and a lot of work and a lot of hours to create this scenario for those brand new F-16 pilots in their capstone event. But a lot of our other job specialties get to practice skills that they don't traditionally use back in San Antonio. So one of those being our ammo guys, they can build live bombs and so that's one of the big ones. But also here for specifically intel, we do a lot of missionized briefings and scenarios. So we get to bring in a lot of the new data that's being given to us and we get to give it to those pilots and they get to utilize that in the correct ways. Reporting for the 149th Fighter Wing, I'm Airman 1st Class Derrick Guglietas.