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The 35th Fighter Squadron earlier this month deployed to a base in Thailand that was once its home, for the large-scale Exercise Cobra Gold 19. The exercise, the 38th iteration, includes 29 countries and will focus on in-flight interoperability along with a humanitarian civic assistance event and a command post exercise, according to a Pacific Air Forces release. The 35th Fighter Squadron, based at Kunsan AB, South Korea, was based at the exercise’s headquarters of Korat Royal Thai AB in the early 1960s. “It was really like a homecoming for the 35th,” 1st Lt. Mason McDaniel, a pilot with the 35th, said in the release. “The Royal Thai Air Force was really welcoming and I’m excited to train alongside them during this year’s exercise.” The exercise began Feb. 11 and will run to Feb. 26.
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