Air National Guard airmen from Alabama, Illinois, and Wisconsin currently make up the Tiger aircraft maintenance unit at Balad AB, Iraq, where they maintain F-16s of the 332nd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron. More than half of these airmen are full-time Guardsmen, reports the Red Tail Flyer. That means many of them have worked together for years, 30 years in some cases. Others are new and are getting “more intense” experience than was possible during technical training, says SrA. Joshua Harrison from Alabama. The Tiger AMU has “fixed or inspected the jets twice as much as they would in the states,” according to the Flyer.
The "Air Force One" replacement will be two to three years late due to pandemic issues, testing, and the loss of a subcontractor on the interior, USAF officials reported at a House Armed Services Committee hearing. They were also warned that some HASC members will insist on a competition of…