Members of the 354th Fighter Wing (354th FW) participated in a capabilities demonstration throughout a routine readiness train at Eielson Air Power Base, Alaska, Could 20, 2022. The demonstration is a part of the bottom’s coaching operations exercising the 354th FW potential to quickly generate and launch the wing’s Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II and Basic Dynamics F-16 Combating Falcon fighter aircrafts. Eielson Air Power Base’s location in Alaska makes it a great place to launch airpower able to reaching wherever within the Northern Hemisphere in a single fighter sortie.
“Since {our capability} demonstration in March 2022, we acquired our final F-35s and accomplished our fleet. The 354th FW has the iron and we’re able to challenge airpower anytime, wherever. Our location is a giant asset. We’re capable of present world-class coaching due to our proximity to the Joint Pacific Alaska Vary Advanced, and we will assist the projection of every kind of plane, together with our permanently-stationed F-35s and different strategic airpower, all around the world. We’re able to reply the decision,” stated Col. David Berkland, 354th FW commander.
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Following the capabilities demonstration, the pilots carried out native coaching sorties within the JPARC. The 354th FW is the world’s premier fifth-generation fighter wing—able to compete, deter and win the high-end battle with a various, prepared and progressive power. The occasion offered the chance for Airmen to hone high-end readiness capabilities. The 354th Fighter Wing is a United States Air Power wing that’s a part of Pacific Air Forces (PACAF). It’s the host wing at Eielson Air Power Base, Alaska, and is assigned to the Eleventh Air Power (11 AF).
The 354th Fighter Wing changed the 343d Fighter Wing on 20 August 1993 as a part of a service-wide effort to protect the lineage of the Air Power’s most honored wings. All 354th Fighter Wing Plane carry the tail code “AK”. The 355 FS was inactivated in August 2007 on account of Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) 2005 motion and all A-10 plane had been reassigned to different USAF models. The 18 FS was redesignated because the 18th Aggressor Squadron (18 AGRS) and stays at Eielson, working the F-16 in an adversary function. Previous to its transfer to Alaska, the 354 FW was primarily based for greater than 35 years on the former Myrtle Seashore Air Power Base, South Carolina.
