Fighter squadrons, including a class of F-22 student pilots, from across the East Coast recently convened in Georgia for the Air National Guard’s largest fighter integration and air-to-air training exercise. The event, Sentry Savannah 16-3, included F-22s along with T-38s, F-15s, F-16s, F-18s, and KC-135 tanker support at Savannah ANGB, Ga., according to an Air Combat Command release. F-22 student pilots from Tyndall AFB, Fla., flew in the exercise as a graduation event in a “dynamic and stressful training environment to put the skillsets they have learned to the test” in the exercise, Capt. Troy Pierce, 43rd Fighter Squadron A-flight commander, said in the release.
The Space Development Agency says it’s on track to issue its next batch of missile warning and tracking satellite contracts this month after those awards were delayed by the Pentagon’s decision to divert funds from the agency to pay troops during this fall’s prolonged government shutdown.
