U.S. Soldiers with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, prepare an OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter assigned to 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, before loading it into an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane during a cont...

U.S. Soldiers with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, prepare an OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter assigned to 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, before loading it into an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane during a cont...

U.S. Soldiers with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, prepare an OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter assigned to 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, before loading it into an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane during a cont...

U.S. Soldiers with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, prepare an OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter assigned to 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, before loading it into an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane during a cont...

U.S. Soldiers with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, prepare a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter assigned to 2nd Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment, before loading it into an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane during a contin...

A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane arrives carrying two Army OH-58D Kiowa Warrior and one UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters assigned to the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, during a contingency response force validation exercise at Hilo Airpor...

Two U.S. Army OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopters assigned to 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, wait in the belly of an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane before being offloaded during a c...

U.S. Soldiers with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, set up ramps to offload an OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter assigned to 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, from an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane during a contin...

U.S. Soldiers with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, offload an OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter assigned to 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, from an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane during a contingency response f...

U.S. Soldiers with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, offload an OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter assigned to 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, from an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane during a contingency response f...

U.S. Soldiers with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, offload an OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter assigned to 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, from an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane during a contingency response f...

U.S. Soldiers with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, offload an OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helciopter assigned to 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, from an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane during a contingency response f...

U.S. Soldiers with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, offload an OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter assigned to 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, from an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane during a contingency response f...

U.S. Soldiers with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, offload an OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter assigned to 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, from an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane during a contingency response f...

U.S. Soldiers with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, offload an OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter assigned to 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, from an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane at Hilo Airport, Hawaii, during...

U.S. Soldiers with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, offload an OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter assigned to 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, from an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane during a contingency response f...

Two U.S. Army OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopters assigned to 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, wait on the flight line after being offloaded from an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane duri...

Two U.S. Army OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopters assigned to 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, wait on the flight line after being offloaded from an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane duri...

U.S. Soldiers with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, offload a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter assigned to 2nd Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment, from an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane during a contingency response for...

U.S. Soldiers with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, offload a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter assigned to 2nd Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment, from an Air Froce C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane during a contingency response for...

U.S. Soldiers with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, offload a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter assigned to 2nd Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment, from an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane during a contingency response for...

U.S. Soldiers with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, offload a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter assigned to 2nd Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment, from an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane during a contingency response for...

Two U.S. Army OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopters assigned to 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, wait on the flight line before being loaded into an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane during...

Two U.S. Army OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopters assigned to 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, wait on the flight line before being loaded into an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane durin...

U.S. Soldiers with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, load a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter assigned to 2nd Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment, into an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane during a contingency response force ...

U.S. Soldiers with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, load an OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter assigned to 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, into an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane during a contingency response forc...

A U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter assigned to 2nd Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, sits in the belly of an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane during a contingency response force va...

HILO, Hawaii - The 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, conducted a contingency response force validation exercise from Wheeler Army Airfield, Hawaii, to Hilo that highlights the CAB's ability to quickly deploy a response force throughout the Pacific, Sept. 11.

The small-scale rapid began when the CRF received the call for deployment and ended when all aircraft were reassembled and ready for flight at the final location.

The CAB CRF task force, which consisted of soldiers from each battalion, began to prepare the aircraft for transportation in a C-17 Globemaster III.

Once loaded in the C-17, the aircraft were transported to the final destination, downloaded and reassembled.

"The battalions worked well together to accomplish the mission," said Capt. Matthew Dedmon, assistant operations officer, 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, 25th CAB, 25th ID, also a native of Oviedo, Fla. "The soldiers, from across the battalions, performed seamlessly."

By completing the exercise in the prescribed time limit, the CAB confirmed its ability to meet the 25th ID commander's intent of providing the PACOM commander with a flexible, tailor able, and scalable Mission Command headquarters supporting contingencies.

"We are shifting our focus to the Pacific after focusing on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars since 2001," said Maj. Mark Fulmer, 25th CAB assistant operations officer, originally from Shartelsville, Penn. "The United States Pacific Command area of responsibility requires a force to react quickly across vast distances while remaining flexible enough to respond to different incidents."

The response force can respond to environmental disasters and other aggressive situations throughout the austere jungle environments and vast oceanic coverage that occupies more than 50 percent of the Earth's surface.

According to Fulmer, the 25th CAB's duty is to provide the best mission ready force that can quickly deploy an aviation task force supporting other units, services and countries.

The 25th CAB will assume the Pacific CRF role in October.