Photo by Airman 1st Class Andre Bordlee | 187th Fighter Wing | 05.07.2025
U.S. Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Skylar Piper, a weapons load crew member assigned to the 187th Maintenance Group, views the sun setting over the flight line during Checkered Flag 25-2 on Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, May 7, 2025. Checkered Flag is a biannual joint force aerial exercise featuring over 60 fourth and fifth-generation fighter jets in large-force combat simulations to......
Photo by Airman 1st Class Andre Bordlee | 187th Fighter Wing | 05.07.2025
U.S. Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Skylar Piper, a weapons load crew member assigned to the 187th Maintenance Group, views the sun setting over the flight line during Checkered Flag 25-2 on Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, May 7, 2025. Checkered Flag is a biannual joint force aerial exercise featuring over 60 fourth and fifth-generation fighter jets in large-force combat simulations to......
Photo by Airman 1st Class Andre Bordlee | 187th Fighter Wing | 05.07.2025
Several F-35A Lightning IIs assigned to the 187th Fighter Wing remain on the flight line during Checkered Flag 25-2 after the day’s flights on Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, May 7, 2025. Checkered Flag is a biannual joint force aerial exercise featuring over 60 fourth and fifth-generation fighter jets in large-force combat simulations to enhance joint domain combat airpower. (U.S. Air......
Photo by Airman 1st Class Andre Bordlee | 187th Fighter Wing | 05.07.2025
An F-35A Lightning II heritage tail flash assigned to the 187th Fighter Wing remains on the flight line during Checkered Flag 25-2 after the day’s flights on Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, May 7, 2025. Checkered Flag is a biannual joint force aerial exercise featuring over 60 fourth and fifth-generation fighter jets in large-force combat simulations to enhance joint domain combat airpower.......
Photo by Airman 1st Class Andre Bordlee | 187th Fighter Wing | 05.07.2025
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Jackson George-Lavery, of fuels operations assigned to the 325th Logistics Readiness Squadron and U.S. Air National Guard Master Sergeant Shawn Christen, Fuels Superintendent assigned to the 187th Logistics Readiness Squadron standby to refuel an F-35A Lightning II on Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, May 7, 2025.The 187th Fighter Wing performed their first hot......
Photo by Airman 1st Class Andre Bordlee | 187th Fighter Wing | 05.07.2025
An AIM-120 sits on the flight line on Tyndall AFB, Fla., May 7, 2025. The 187th Fighter Wing performed their first hot integrated combat turn with live munitions for the Weapon System Evaluation Program(WSEP). (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Airman 1st Class Andre Bordlee)...
Photo by Airman 1st Class Andre Bordlee | 187th Fighter Wing | 05.07.2025
U.S. Air National Guard Airmen from the 187th Fighter Wing, Maintenance and Mission Support Group, prepare to fuel and load live munitions on an F-35A Lightning II, Tyndall AFB, Fla., May 7, 2025. The 187th Fighter Wing performed their first hot integrated combat turn with live munitions for the Weapon System Evaluation Program(WSEP). (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Airman 1st Class Andre......
Photo by Airman 1st Class Andre Bordlee | 187th Fighter Wing | 05.07.2025
U.S. Air National Guard Captain Jonathan “BLUE” Gill, a pilot assigned to the 100th Fighter Squadron and Staff Sergeant Christopher Germann, a maintainer assigned to the 187th Maintenance Group prepare to execute a hot integrated combat turn with an F-35A Lightning II on Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, May 7, 2025. The 187th Fighter Wing performed their first hot integrated combat turn......
