The Air Force and the National Guard Bureau have directed the
111th Fighter Wing to extend their mission until 2010 at Naval
Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove, PA -- a move that, while
good news for the personnel at Willow Grove, Pennsylvania Governor
Edward G. Rendell questions whether isn't still a bit
shortsighted.
Just as security checkpoints play a vital role in
keeping air bases safe, "foreign objects and debris" checkpoints
are important to helping win the war against foreign object
damage.
The F-16 Fighting Falcon student pilot whose plane crashed April
11 was treated and released from a local medical center after
safely ejecting from the aircraft. Capt. Jason Attaway, assigned to
the 62nd Fighter Squadron, was on a two-ship student training
mission heading toward an air-to-air training area to perform basic
fighter maneuvers when the incident occurred.
Many U.S. pilots who patrolled the skies of Iraq after the 1991
Persian Gulf War would later put that experience to use during
Operation Iraqi Freedom, an F-16 pilot who flew combat missions
over Iraq early in the war said Monday.
Read More
