EX AFRICAN LION 18. A KC-135 from the 100th ARW refueled F-15's from the 493rd Fighter Squadron and F-16's from the Royal Moroccan Air Force training out of Ben Guerir Air Base. The KC-135 fueled 4 F-15's and 4 F-16's with 47,500 pounds of fuel. The US Air Force and Royal Moroccan Air Force are training together in part of EXERCISE AFRICAN LION 18. This annual exercise provides training for U.S. and Moroccan forces, as well as promote interoperability and further develop tactics, techniques, and procedures of all participating nations to counter-violent extremist organizations.
Minutes from the Pisa International Airport and the city of Livorno, Italy, tucked away in a stretch of woodland, sits the largest stockpile of conventional munitions within U.S. Air Forces in Europe.
When focusing on the world’s greatest Airmen and the cutting-edge aircraft they maintain and support, many people often forget another vital aspect to the fighting force …
“You can’t let us intimidate you into silence,” he said, looking over the Dolomite mountain range’s rugged expanse during a day-long training exercise. “We had a guy come to the unit and he never talked. He didn’t make it through technical training. Every moment, every day, you have to learn or you won’t make it.”
Approximately 140 personnel from the 606th Air Control Squadron deployed throughout U.S. Central and Africa Command in support of Operation Inherent Resolve and Operation Freedom’s Sentinel, throughout early Oct. 2017, at Aviano Air Base, Italy.
