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31st AMXS wins Air Force level award
Mar 04, 2008 - After a record-setting year, the 31st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron's hard work and dedication to the mission culminated with the squadron clinching the 2007 Air Force Maintenance Effectiveness Award. [Read more...]
Pilot reaches 1,000 combat hours
Lt. Col. George Uribe, 332nd EOG pilot, is greeted and congratulated by Col. Steven Shepro, 332nd AEW vice commander, and Col. Charles Moore, 332nd EOG commander, after completing 1,000 combat flying hours as an F-16 pilot on February 17th, 2008 at Balad AB. Colonel Uribe is deployed from Tyndall AFB. [USAF photo by SrA. Julianne Showalter]
Feb 23, 2008 - 332nd Expeditionary Operations Group F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot, will reach two career milestones in a matter of weeks, one of which no other current Air Force fighter pilot has done until now. [Read more...]
Several factors caused F-16 crash in Italy
USAF F-16C block 40 #88-0529 from the 510th FS is attending a Combat Hammer exercise held at Hill AFB on August 19th, 2006. [Photo by Duane Kaiser]
Jan 18, 2008 - An Air Force report blames the September 18th, 2007 crash of an F-16CG on a wide range of factors, including weather, plane malfunction and pilot action. [Read more...]
F-16 pilot with the 510th FS awarded DFC
Capt. George Collings is presented the DFC on the flightline by his father and fellow F-16 pilot Major Gen. Michael Collings, the Senior U.S. Defense Representative to Egypt. General Collings flew into Aviano AB to present Capt. Collings with the medal for distinguishing himself by extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as an F-16C pilot with the 510th EFS based out of Balad AB. [USAF photo by SrA. Patrick Dixon]
Oct 30, 2007 - A pilot from the 510th Fighter Squadron was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross here Oct. 29 for his aerial combat support of friendly forces in the vicinity of An Najaf, Iraq, while supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. [Read more...]
510th FS fly in Bulgarian exercise
USAF F-16C block 40 #90-0709 from the 510th FS takes off from Graf Ignattevo AFB, Bulgaria, for a Combat training mission on October 17th, 2007. [USAF photo by SSgt. Michael R. Holzworth]
Oct 26, 2007 - Members of the 31st FW wrapped up Rodopi Javelin 2007 today, a three-week exercise, marking the second time the 510th FS participated in a joint exercise with the Bulgarian air force at Graf Ignatevio AB, Bulgaria. [Read more...]
Alpine life returns to normal after F-16 crash
USAF F-16C block 40 #88-0529 from the 510th FS is taxiing by at Konya AB during exercise Anatolian Eagle held there in June of 2006. [Photo by <a href="http://eminfindikli.tripod.com" target="new">Emin F&yacute;nd&yacute;kl&yacute;</a>]
Oct 04, 2007 - Two weeks after an Air Force jet plummeted to the ground near Soramae Di Zolto Alto, this tiny Alpine village, life is pretty much back to the way it was before. [Read more...]
510th FS F-16 crashes in Italy
USAF F-16C block 40 #88-0529 from the 510th FS is attending a Combat Hammer exercise held at Hill AFB on August 19th, 2006. [Photo by Duane Kaiser]
Sep 18, 2007 - A 510th FS F-16 crashed this evening on mountains near Belluno (North of Aviano). The pilot ejected safely. [Read more...]
555th FS members return to the "Wolf Pack"
Lt. Col. Clay Hall pulls to a stop in F-16C block 40 #88-0435 from the 555th FS with the direction of his maintainers on June 19th, 2007. [USAF photo by SrA. Steven R. Doty]
Jun 19, 2007 - After being away for years, the 555th Fighter Squadron reunited with the 8th Fighter Wing's "Wolf Pack" during the squadron's deployment to Kunsan Air Base. [Read more...]
F-16s use new 20mm ammo in battle
The more aerodynamic, higher velocity PGU-28A/B 20mm HEI 20mm cannon round (bottom) replaced the older M56 round long used by the F-16. It was first validated at a firing range on February 22nd, 2007, then used in battle against insurgents east of Baghdad on February 26th marking the first-ever use in battle by Air Force F-16 pilots in Iraq. [USAF photo by Capt. Ken Hall]
Mar 02, 2007 - Air Force F-16 pilots employed a new 20mm cannon round in their M61/A1 'Vulcan' Gatling guns for the first time, first validating the rounds at a firing range on Feb. 22, and then employing them in battle Feb. 26. [Read more...]
Post takes command of 20th Fighter Wing
Colonel James Post's name is revealed on the 20th Fighter Wing F-16 flagship during the change of command ceremony on February 28th, 2007. [USAF photo by SSgt. Josef Cole]
Mar 01, 2007 - Col. James N. "Bull" Post III took command of the Air Force's 20th Fighter Wing during a ceremony yesterday at Shaw AFB. [Read more...]
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