'Hoosier' Hog returns after an Air Warrior mission to Ft Irwin

Close to the runway during take-off is always very spectacular. This A-10C was part of a 12-strong 74th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron security package deployment to Graf Ignatievo in Bulgaria in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve. The 74th FS "Flying Tigers" is normally based at Moody AFB (GA) as part of the 23rd Wing.

The 355 Fighter squadron flightline at Bagram (Afghanistan). Deployed were 78-0701, 79-0187 and 0207, 80-0149, 0189, 0220, 0238, 0240 and 0259, 81-0969, 0979 and 0997.

The 355th Fighter Squadron 'Fighting Falcons', Alaska Air National Guard, deployed to Bagram (Afghanistan) in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in 2005. The unit was at that time based at Eielson (AK). The squadron was inactivated in August 2007. After an other reactivation in October 2015 and and inactivation on October 2019 (flying F-16s from Forth Worth) the squadron was reactivated again, this time with F-35As at (again) Eielson on 18 December 2020.