421st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron is the first USAF F-35A unit to go on alert status

The 421st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron has become the first F-35A unit in the U.S. Air Force to go on alert status this month.

An F-35A Lighting II taxis at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, May 20, 2020. Airmen from the 388th and 419th Fighter Wings have deployed F-35As into combat three times in 12 months. The group of deployed Airmen is made of pilots for the actvie duty 421st Fighter Squadron and the Reserve 466th Fighter Squadron, as well as active duty and Reserve Airmen in the 421st Aircraft Maintnenace Unit. (U.S. Air Force photo by R. Nial Bradshaw)

The historic milestone was reached during the deployment to U.S. Central Command.

Based at Al Dhafra Air Base, the squadron carried out alert status exercises to provide the necessary data points to mission planners with the U.S. Air Force Central Command Air Operations Center.

The 421st Fighter Squadron and the 466th Fighter Squadron left Hill Air Force Base on May 20 to deploy to the Middle East.

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