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.
Air Force depots are not typically meant for quick repair jobs, but during Operation Epic Fury, the service moved some of its stateside heavy maintenance capability forward to fix battle-damaged aircraft closer to the fight.
