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  • Hill F-35s, Airmen wrap-up Red Flag deployment

    HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah – After a successful three weeks of simulated combat-operations at Red Flag, Airmen from the active duty 388th Fighter Wing and Reserve 419th Fighter Wing returned home over the past week.The 421st Fighter Squadron and Fighter Generation Squadron deployed 12 F-35A Lightning

  • Hill fighter wings deploy Airmen, F-35s to Germany

    HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah – Pilots, maintainers and support personnel from the active duty 388th and Reserve 419th Fighter Wing here deployed the F-35A Lightning II to Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany.The jets arrived at Spangdahlem today to bolster readiness, enhance NATO's collective defense posture

  • 388th OSS providing combat intelligence for Red Flag’s joint force

    NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nevada --  As part of the 388th Fighter Wing’s ‘lead wing’ role at Red Flag, Airmen from the 388th Operations Support Squadron’s Intelligence Flight are scoping out the Red Air adversary.During three weeks at Red Flag, a friendly “Blue Force” (a variety of fighter, bomber,

  • F-35A maintainers honing agile combat initiatives at Red Flag

    NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nevada – F-35A Lightning II maintainers from the 388th Maintenance Group’s 421st Fighter Generation Squadron are using the simulated combat environment of Red Flag to “stress test” their agility.The 388th Fighter Wing deployed 12 F-35A Lightning II’s to Red Flag. Along with

  • Young F-35A maintainers benefitting from Red Flag experience

    NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nevada – Tech school and tech orders and on the job training are foundational pieces of any young maintainer’s development, but putting all that knowledge and skill to the test under the pressure of a deployment helps solidify that foundation. Maintainers from the 421st

  • Hill's F-35A Demonstration Team heading to L.A. for Super Bowl LVI flyover

    HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah – Five aircraft representing the Air Force’s 75 years as a service will conduct a first-of-its-kind flyover during the National Anthem performance at Super Bowl LVI, Feb. 13, over SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. The F-35A Lightning II Demonstration Team, led by Major

  • Red Flag-Nellis 22-1 kicks off with allied forces

    Nearly 100 aircraft and 3,000 personnel have arrived at Nellis Air Force Base to participate in the first Red Flag exercise of 2022. Aimed at providing realistic training and increasing combat effectiveness, the exercise will run from Jan. 24 to Feb. 11.