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Members of 321st Contingency Response Squadron drive forklifts down the flightline at Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center, Mich., to help incoming aircraft unload cargo May 16, 2021. Members of the 321st CRS and arriving aircraft are participating in Exercise Mobility Guardian 2021, consisting of 13 days of intense operations with complex threats to ready Air Mobility Command forces for any mission in contested, degraded and operationally-limited environments. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Kentavist P. Brackin)

F-35A acoustic and emission testing at RAF Lakenheath

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The 134th Fighter Squadron from Vermont ANG traveled to RAF Lakenheath, England last month to help collect acoustic and emission data from inside the protective aircraft shelters at the base.

An F-35A Lightning II assigned to the 158th Fighter Wing Air, Vermont National Guard, stands static inside a protective aircraft shelter prior to the start of an acoustic and emission test at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, May 4, 2021. Prior to testing, acoustic sensors are affixed to the skin of the aircraft in structurally critical locations where acoustic pressure levels cannot be exceeded. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jessi Monte)

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