Guam marked as support location for Resolute Force Pacific exercise 2025
- Admin
- Jul 10
- 2 min read
By Pacific Island Times News Staff
Guam’s civilian airport has been designated as a support location for Resolute Force Pacific 25 or Reforpac, the largest contingency response exercise in the Indo-Pacific region, which kicked off in Japan Thursday.
Reforpac involves more than 350 aircraft aiming to demonstrate the command’s ability to generate, sustain, and adapt airpower in a contested environment while working alongside regional allies.
“GIAA’s runways and taxiways are a vital piece of infrastructure supporting not only commercial aviation, but also a critical alternate or divert location for military and civilian operations,” said John M. Quinata, executive manager.
“GIAA is proud to support regional military exercises as a support location.”
According to a press release from Andersen Air Force Base, the Pacific Air Forces-led exercise includes multinational and joint partners.
The exercise will run until Aug. 8 across several locations throughout the Pacific, including Hawaii, Guam, Japan, and international airspace as part of the Department of the Air Force’s Department-Level Exercise series.
On Guam, airport officials advised the local community that they may anticipate increased military air activity and associated noise on or around the airport—officially known as A. B. Won Pat International Airport—from July 12 through 29. The airport management said no commercial operations are expected to be impacted.
“The U.S. Air Force tasked PACAF to demonstrate its ability to rapidly disperse thousands of servicemembers and associated equipment across the region to defend the United States, ally and partner nations, and their interests in the Pacific as part of the DLE,” the 36th Wing Command at AAFB said.
“Team Andersen is honored to host this iteration of Resolute Force Pacific (REFORPAC). This exercise will allow our Airmen to showcase their ability to project combat power from Guam, sustain operations through the global logistics enterprise, and strengthen our integrated warfighting team,” said Col Dan Cooley, 36th Wing commander.
“As the 36th Air Expeditionary Task Force is activated for REFORPAC, we will test aircraft generation and command-and-control capabilities, fortifying the lethality of U.S. air power, while working together with our allies and partners to increase interoperability throughout the Indo-Pacific.”
Activities will highlight critical skills such as aircraft flightline operations, munitions loading, hot-pit rapid refueling, combat search and rescue, distributed logistics, and multilateral air-to-air refueling.
AAFB said Reforpac will test how well PACAF, and its many partners adapt in a challenging environment to remain fully mission capable.
“We must be ready to operate in austere conditions, with degraded networks, and through disruptions to sustainment chains. Our forces must be self-sufficient, mobile, and capable of rapid adaptation,” said Gen. Kevin Schneider, PACAF commander.
“Our ability to fight and prevail in any contested environment depends on our team’s ability to generate aircraft sorties while under attack and often far away from our main operating bases. I have full confidence that we will be able to do this, but we must continue to refine our skills to stay ahead of the environment in which we operate," he added.
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