Raptor Makes Korea Debut in Invincible Spirit

摘要

Two F-22 fighters participated in Invincible Spirit in July, a large-scale combined US and South Korean exercise to demonstrate allied resolve. The exercise came in the wake of the sinking of the South Korean frigate Cheonan in March off the west coast of the peninsula, killing 46 sailors, and North Korea's increasingly bellicose rhetoric toward its neighbor.The exercise marked the F-22's first deployment to the Korean peninsula. The Raptors participated in the exercise on July 26 and 27, and deployed from Kadena AB, Japan's, 7th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron (visiting from their home station at Holloman AFB, N.M., according to Pacific Air Forces officials).