Seeing the need for an exercise that would allow U.S. Air Force rescue units to test and improve the full range of their capabilities, in 2006, Brett Hartnett, then an Air Force rescue pilot, created Angel Thunder. Seven years later, Hartnett, now a civilian contractor based at Davis-Monthan U.S. Force Base in Tucson, Arizona, is director of the largest Air Force exercise of its kind in the world.
Angel Thunder: An Exercise in Life Saving

May 13, 2013