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The 602d Training Group (Provisional) is a training group of the
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, established in 2007. It is headquartered at
Keesler Air Force Base Keesler Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located in Biloxi, a city along the Gulf Coast in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States. The base is named in honor of aviator 2d Lt Samuel Reeves Keesler Jr., a Mississippi nati ...
, MS. The group is responsible for ensuring U.S. Air Force personnel who are tasked with joint expeditionary deployments have the skills necessary to operate in a hostile environment.{{Cite web , url=https://www.keesler.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1120926/602nd-trg-p-preparing-airmen-for-jet-missions/ , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128034835/https://www.keesler.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1120926/602nd-trg-p-preparing-airmen-for-jet-missions/ , url-status=dead , archive-date=28 November 2018 , title=602nd TRG (P): Preparing Airmen for JET missions These Airman are embedded with Army, Marine Corps and Navy units. "Our mission in the 602nd TRG (Provisional) is to provide capable and confident Airmen to combatant commands," said Chief Master Sgt. Heather Ransom, 602nd TRG (Provisional) superintendent. "We facilitate Army Combat Skills Training, Air Force Evasion and Conduct After Capture and 12 specialty training courses for Airmen filling joint expeditionary and individual augmentee taskings." The group has detachments at
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and
Fort Johnson Fort Polk, formerly Fort Johnson, is a United States Army installation located in Vernon Parish, Louisiana, Vernon Parish, Louisiana, about 10 miles (15 km) east of Leesville, Louisiana, Leesville and 30 miles (50 km) north of DeRid ...
. "Training at Fort Bliss consists of two major focus areas.. The first is our civil engineer training composed of units deploying to perform airfield maintenance and other engineering tasks downrange. The second is individual augmentee training composed of Air Force and Navy personnel who perform varied missions when joint service units have a need for troops." The Combat Advisor Course takes place at Fort Johnson, where Airmen learn to serve as advisors through completion of the Army’s
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training program. The group provides a 24-hour, seven day a week link for Airmen in training. The group is responsible for all trainee logistics, reception, bed down, care and feeding and redeployment of more than 1,300 students annually.


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Training groups of the United States Air Force