Air Force C-130s, C-17s, and aircrews are taking part in a NATO training exercise made up of 5,000 participants and 18 nations this month in Germany. Exercise Saber Junction 16 at Hohenfels Training Area, which will run through April 24, is focused on land operations in a joint, combined environment, according to a 31st Fighter Wing release. “This is what we train for, to see everything come into place on a scale this big,” Capt. Steven Marinos, aircraft commander with the 908th Airlift Wing, said in the release. Aircraft dropped paratroopers and large equipment across multiple landing zones throughout the four-week exercise.
The crash of a T-38 trainer jet this May—which caused a weekslong pause in flights across the fleet—was caused by an improperly installed pin for one of the jet’s horizontal stabilizers, according to a new accident report released Oct. 30. When the pin disengaged midflight, it created the slightest amount…