Department-Level Exercise (DLE) Series

Through this series, the Department of the Air Force is preparing to be a stronger, more lethal deterrent force, to provide an advantage against competitors and adversaries across all domains, and to ensure regional stability in the Indo-Pacific and beyond.

The DLE series will incorporate multiple command exercises into one overall threat deterrence scenario, including Resolute Force Pacific (REFORPAC), Resolute Space, Mobility Guardian, Emerald Warrior and Bamboo Eagle 25-3.

It will also integrate multiple allies and partners in specific component exercises with shared interests. Partner integration is critical to U.S. efforts to ensure regional and global peace and stability and provides a decisive advantage against complex threats.

Freedom Shield 26: Decon Training B-Roll

2ID Sustainment Brigade

Video by Spc. Mark Bowman

March 11, 2026 | 0:59

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 23rd Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and High-Yield Explosives Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade, 2d Infantry Division/ROK-U.S. Combined Division, practice decontamination procedures for troops and for roadways during Freedom Shield 26 at Dagmar North, South Korea, March 12, 2026. These Champion Brigade Soldiers trained to keep Soldiers and the Republic of Korea safe. Freedom Shield is an annual combined exercise conducted in support of the ROK-U.S. Mutual Defense Treaty signed in 1953. This combined exercise highlights the ironclad commitment between the two nations to maintain a robust combined defense posture and to defend the people of the ROK and the United States from any threat or adversary. (U.S. Army video by Spc. Mark Bowman) More