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.
The Senate voted Nov. 10 to approve a stopgap funding bill that would reopen the federal government and keep it funded through January, a significant step toward ending the longest shutdown in U.S. history.
