US Air Force officials are working with counterparts in Singapore, who want to bring up to 10 F-15s of the Singapore Air Force to Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, to establish a training squadron. Any such addition to a US base requires an environmental impact study, which Maj. Damien Pickart, Mountain Home public affairs chief, says should be complete in March. Mountain Home is shedding its F-16s and F-15Cs and picking up F-15Es from Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, courtesy of BRAC 2005.
The Air Force has finished resurrecting a B-1B Lancer, completing a yearslong process to transform a bomber that had been stored for parts in the Arizona desert into the new flagship of the 7th Bomb Wing at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas.