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  • Hill's Ogden Air Logistics Complex delivers 12th F-35A

    The Ogden Air Logistics Complex recently completed modifications on the 12th F-35A Lightning II for the Air Force's active-duty 388th Fighter Wing and Reserve 419th Fighter Wing.
  • An F-35A seperates from formation to land at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, for a training exercise June 6-17. Mountain Home AFB's airspace allows Hill Air Force Base's active duty 388th Fighter Wing and reserve 419th Fighter Wing to fully test the aircraft in preperations for declaring initial operational capability later this year. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Alaysia Berry/Released)

    F-35A nearly combat ready

    The first deployment exercise for the F-35A Lightning II confirmed that the Air Force’s newest fighter jet is on track to reach initial operational capability later this year. A declaration of IOC means the F-35A will be combat ready.
  • Staff Sgt. Cinnamon Kavlick, 388th Equipment Maintenance Squadron, inspects an X-ray image March 25 in the 388th EMS Non-Destructive Inspection laboratory at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. The 388th EMS NDI lab recently upgraded its radiography equipment with digital capabilities, improving the process of locating small cracks and identifying minute discontinuities in aircraft engines, wings, and other components. (U.S. Air Force photo by Todd Cromar)

    X-ray vision?!!

    Well, X-ray vision not quite in the way most would imagine, but a form of X-ray vision nonetheless.Usually the stuff of sci-fi movies, fictional superheroes, or comic books ads, the digital upgrade to a base Nondestructive Inspection (NDI) laboratory's X-ray system has greatly improved the workflow for Airmen assigned there.The 388th Equipment
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