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  • Staff Sgt. Trevor Bradford and Senior Airman Joshua Woeckener, both with the Joint Tactical Air Control team from Washington, train at the Utah Test and Training Range. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Stefanie Torres)

    Joint Tactical Air Control team trains at UTTR

    It was January 2003 - right before the invasion of Iraq. Staff Sgt. Trevor Bradford was a Joint Tactical Air Controller stationed with a special forces unit during Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. "I received a message we were about to invade Iraq so we had to move out," he said. He arrived in Kuwait with his team. Enemy troops were
  • Family and friends cheer as the commercial airline carrying 421st EFS Airmen pulls up to Hangar 37 Friday at about 4 p.m.

    Downpour doesn't dampen 421st EFS homecoming

    More than 200 Airmen from the 421st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron are home after a four-month deployment to Balad Air Base, Iraq. Hangar 37 was flooded with waiting family, friends and co-workers here Sept. 15, at about 4:10 p.m. as the Airmen stepped off the commercial airline. The downpour of rain didn't stop the happy reunions from being
  • Lt. Gen. Norman Seip, 12th Air Force and Air Forces Southern commander, shakes hands with members of the 729th Air Control Squadron as they introduced him to their operations module.

    388th FW 'gets it': Words from the 12th AF commander

    Twelfth Air Force and Air Forces Southern Commander, Lt. Gen. Norman Seip toured 388th Fighter Wing units here Monday, August 28, for the first time since taking command in July. General Seip had the opportunity to address the wing during a commander's call as well as meet with Airmen from the 388th Component Maintenance Squadron, 388th Equipment
  • Staff Sgt. Larry Hamlin, 7th Component Maintenance Squadron, and his coworkers, Master Sgt. Mark Carroll (left) and Staff Sgt. Jaime Barajas (right) welcome Lt. Gen. Norman R. Seip, 12th Air Force and Air Forces Southern commander, to Dyess? 7th CMS shop, where the General received a Lean briefing and met many of the maintenance troops.

    General Seip arrival

    The new 12th Air Force and Air Forces Southern Commander, Lt. Gen. Norman Seip, is scheduled to visit the 388th Fighter Wing August 27-28. The general has specific goals for the 388th FW Airmen. "Fly, fight and win." During his July 7 change of command, Gen. Seip spoke of his goals for 12th AF. "Take care of our Airmen ... ensuring each of them is

  • 'Black Widows' deploy for more combat

    The 'Black Widows' were the first active duty F-16 unit to deploy to Balad Air Base, Iraq, and are there for the second time executing their third deployment supporting Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The 421st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron deployed at the beginning of May for a four-month Air and Space Expeditionary Force deployment. They have been

  • 388th AMXS gives back to Troop 76

    Members of the 388th Aircraft Maintenance Group and Girl Scout Troop 76 came together for a girl scouts bridging ceremony Sunday, June 11 at 5:30 p.m. at the Oak Park Lawn in North Ogden. Members of the 388th Fighter Wing presented these girls with a very special gift as a way of saying thank you for their support while the 388th was deployed for
  • Capt. Nick Edwards, pilot with the 421st, fills out his post-flight forms documentation after Aircraft 87-0428 flew over 6,000 hours. Staff Sgt. Jason Butts, Staff Sgt. Charlie Martin, and Senior Airman James Fairbanks look on before they begin post-flight maintenance.

    Two F-16s achieve 6,000 hour milestone

    Two F-16s assigned to the "Black Widows" of the 421st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron and Aircraft Maintenance Unit celebrated their 6,000th flying hour during two recent Operation Iraqi Freedom combat missions over Iraq. Flown by Lt. Col. Mark Cline, 421st EFS commander, and Capt. Nick Edwards, the Black Widow's Squadron flagship Aircraft 88-0471,
  • Airman 1st Class James Ballard, 332d Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron, studies the technical orders of an F-16. The phase teams work around the clock to get two squadrons of F-16s inspected and flying in three days on average. (U.S. Air Force photo/SrA Kerry Solan-Johnson)

    Falcon Phase In

    The Airmen of the 332nd Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron's Viper phase team know that beauty is only skin deep, so when they get an F-16 to inspect they look deep underneath the skin to find the ugly problems. Every 400 flying hours, the maintenance squadron's Viper phase team takes apart the F-16s of the 421st Fighter Squadron and puts them back

  • Royal Air Force fighter squadron trains at Hill

    About 200 Royal Air Force personnel from the Marham Tornado Wing are at Hill Air Force Base to conduct joint training with F-16s from the 388th Fighter Wing. The nine Tornado fighter jets are conducting an average of 12 air-toground daily sorties at the Utah Test and Training Range using laser-guided and unguided bombs each day. "This is an
  • (Left to right) Staff Sgt. William Griffith, Senior Airmen Mark Vandevender and Kenneth Umeck, with the Viper West demo team, speak to 150 kids via a television link during a Bingo game March 15 at Primary Children?s Medical Center.

    Viper West team brings good spirits to SLC hospital

    Ear-to-ear grins can be seen on children's faces as three members of the Viper West team make their way through different hospital rooms at the Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake City. The team members visited the hospital to lead a scheduled game of Bingo and give the children coloring books and stickers March 15. Their 30 minute drive
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