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    VAQ-132 participates in Red Flag 20-3

    Photo Essay: U.S. Navy Airmen from Electronic Attack Squadron 132 at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington, successfully completed their mission, launching all jets successfully, July 31, 2020, at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. U.S. Navy Airman prepared EA-18G Growler’s for take-off prior to Red Flag 20-3 and coordinated with pilots before launch, confirming systems are fully functional to ensure mission success and the pilot’s safety. They are trained in both ground take offs on land, as well as aircraft carrier operations.
  • Airmen assigned to the 20th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (AMXS) stand at parade rest awaiting the reorganization of the squadron during a squadron stand-up ceremony at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, Feb. 24, 2020.

    20th AMXS reorganizes to increase agility, readiness

    Some things never change, but the 20th Fighter Wing is not one of them. As the Air Force works to bring the future faster and develop innovative new ways to increase the agility and lethality of its people, units and tactics, so does its premier suppression of enemy air defenses wing.
  • A U.S. Air Force F-16 pilot assigned to the 79th Fighter Squadron prepares for take-off during Exercise Red Flag 19-1 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Jan. 30, 2019.

    “Tigers” roar through Red Flag 19-1

    U.S. Airmen assigned to the 79th Fighter Squadron and 20th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, 79th Aircraft Maintenance Unit, are participating in Exercise Red Flag 19-1 from Jan. 26 – Feb. 15. The goal of Red Flag is to prepare Air Force, Joint, and Coalition pilots, aircrews and operators to fight against peer-level adversaries in any combat environment. Throughout the 3-week exercise, the Air Force’s five core functions are integrated. The functions are: intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, command and control, superiority, strike, and personal recovery and mobility.
  • A U.S. Air Force pilot assigned to the 20th Fighter Wing flies an F-16CM Fighting Falcon above the Atlantic Ocean, June 19, 2018.

    20th FW, 72nd ARS team up to stay sharp

    An F-16 Fighting Falcon cannot fly around the world on one tank of fuel. When the mission demands keeping the jets in the air, pilots can refuel with one of the Air Force’s gas stations in the sky. Grissom Joint Air Reserve Base, Indiana.
  • An SA-8 Gecko “Land Roll” launcher surface-to-air missile system sits on the flightline at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., Jan. 20, 2017. The Russian-built SA-8 gave Airmen an insight into the 20th Fighter Wing’s suppression of enemy air defenses mission. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Kelsey Tucker)

    An up-close look at the 20th FW mission

    An Airman crawls in through the hatch of a vehicle and ducks into the darkness below. It is a confined space filled with buttons and knobs, switches and panels, each of them marked by a series of unknown symbols and strange lettering, and it smells like the inside of a military surplus store.Airmen assigned to the 20th Fighter Wing were treated to
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