To grasp the significance and rarity of the thirty sixth Wing and 525th Fighter Squadron “Bulldogs” reunion, they must step again in time and see the place it began for 525th FS, the thirty sixth Wing and Andersen Air Power Base, Guam. On Nov. 1, 1968, the 525th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, flying the F-102 Delta Daggers on the time, had been assigned to the thirty sixth Tactical Fighter Wing, U.S. Air Forces Europe in Bitburg Air Base, Germany. On Oct. 1, 1969 the 525th FIS was redesignated as a Tactical Fighter Squadron and have become the primary squadron in Germany to fly the F-4E Phantom II and in 1977 the primary squadron to fly F-15s in Europe.

“Most Air Power wings have had the identical numbered wing and different models assigned on their air bases since across the Korean Struggle, some after the Vietnam Struggle. Through the years Andersen Air Power Base performed host to over seven totally different wings. In 2007, the 525th FS redesignated and activated once more at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. The 525th Fighter Squadron is the one fighter squadron ever assigned to the thirty sixth Wing that’s nonetheless energetic within the Air Power as we speak.,” stated Jeff Meyer, thirty sixth Wing historian.

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The 525th FS was deactivated in March of 1992 and in 1994 the 36 FW closed its doorways at Bitburg AB and moved to Andersen AFB because the thirty sixth Air Base Wing. The 525th FS and the F-22 Raptors they fly are at the moment deployed in help of Operation Pacific Iron 2021 at Andersen AFB. Pacific Iron is a U.S. Pacific Air Forces Dynamic Power Employment operation to undertaking forces into the USINDOPACOM’s space of accountability in help of the 2018 Nationwide Protection Technique which known as on the navy to be a extra deadly, adaptive, and resilient drive.

In 2007, the 525th FS redesignated and activated once more at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. The 525th Fighter Squadron is the one fighter squadron ever assigned to the thirty sixth Wing that’s nonetheless energetic within the Air Power as we speak. Airmen deployed in help of Pacific Iron are honing their Multi-capable Airmen and Agile Fight Employment abilities at airports in Guam and Tinian. ACE is using agile operations to generate resilient airpower in a contested atmosphere and is designed to arrange, practice and equip Airmen to be extra agile in operation execution, strategic in deterrence, and extra resilient in capabilities.

U.S. Air Power Brig. Gen. Jeremy T. Sloane, thirty sixth Wing commander, middle, Col. Travolis Simmons, third Wing commander, proper and Lt. Col. Matthew Tromans, 525th Struggle Squadron commander, left stand in entrance of an F-22 Raptor assigned to the 525th FS, third Wing, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska at Andersen Air Power Base, Guam, July 23, 2021. (U.S. Air Power Grasp Sgt. Richard P. Ebensberger)