The Air Force Weapons School at Nellis, AFB, Nev., received its first F-22A Raptor fighter aircraft on Jan. 9. A Nellis spokeswoman tells the Daily Report that the weapons school is scheduled to receive five Raptors in total. The next one will arrive in March and then one per month after that until all five are in place in June, she says. These Raptors will be part of Nellis’s 57th Wing and used to train PhD-level instructor pilots.
Members of the Air Force Reserve’s 920th Rescue Wing helped save 11 airplane crash survivors off the coast of Florida on May 12. The Reserve Airmen were flying an HC-130J Combat King II and an HH-60W Jolly Green II on a routine training flight when a Coast Guard call diverted…