F-16s from 169th FW helped rescue stranded boaters

Two F-16s from the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing were vectored to help locate a 25-foot pleasure boat with two stranded boaters aboard on Mar. 8.

157th Fighter Squadron Lockheed F-16C Block 52P Fighting Falcon 92-3909
By United States Air Force (http://www.f-16.net/gallery_item34518.html) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

The jets were training off the North Carolina coast when the call came in to help assist the USCG in locating the boat.

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