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Misawa's deployed F-16 pilots got back into the fight last week in Iraq while supporting some major Army operations, reported Lt. Col. Chuck Toplikar, the 14th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron commander.

Past and present 388th Fighter Wing leaders met March 26 on the wing ramp to mark the completion of a $6.25 million aircraft shelter and lighting project, a quality of life initiative for wing Airmen.

Nearly 16 years of flying F-16 fighters officially ended on March 16 when the 389th Fighter Squadron officially transferred to a new airframe and a new mission during a ceremony in Hangar 201.

Shaw's Viper East F-16 Demonstration Team started this year's season March 1st with the annual Heritage Flight training conference at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz.

In February, F-16C Fighting Falcons from the 61st Fighter Squadron performed a mission in the skies over the Gila Bend Air Force auxiliary field that had not been performed there before.

The Dutch F-16 are slowly arriving at the Springfield Airbase in Ohio. The official welcoming opening is scheduled for April 24, 2007.

Michigan Air National Guardsmen returned home after serving approximately 45 days with the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing at Balad airbase, 40 miles north of Baghdad.

The 18th Fighter Squadron recently procured the Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System (JHMCS) helmets, an important war-fighting upgrade that will help keep them at the tip of the spear.

A staff sergeant who watched as one airman attempted and another threw a small frog into a running F-16 jet engine received three months in jail and a bad conduct discharge in a Kunsan Air Base courtroom Friday night.

Col. James N. "Bull" Post III took command of the Air Force's 20th Fighter Wing during a ceremony yesterday at Shaw AFB.

The pilot of an Ohio Air National Guard F-16 with then-Lt. Gov. Bruce Johnson in the backseat broke several FAA regulations in his high-speed tour of Columbus, Ohio, last summer.

The 147th Fighter Wing of the Texas Air National guard is expected to fly to Southeast Asia late today from Ellington Field to support troops in Iraq.

Air Combat Command's West Coast F-16, Fighting Falcon, Demonstration Team, better known as Viper West, began its 2007 season Jan. 31 in Tucson, Ariz. The team performed Feb. 17 and 18 at the Falcon and Condor Airshow in Lima, Peru.

Dropping bombs during combat sorties in Iraq has been the exception, rather than the rule, for the deployed F-16 pilots from Misawa Air Base's 14th Fighter Squadron.

Approximately 150 U.S. airmen are participating in a joint military exercise with the Peruvian air force scheduled to continue through Feb. 16 in northern Peru in the vicinity of Chiclayo.