Grim Reapers' First Desert Calling

摘要

For two weeks in late August and early September, aircraft of Strike Fighter Squadron 101 (VFA-101)The Grim Reapers'took to the skies of Northern Nevada for the first time. In a historic first detachment of the US Navy's F-35C Lightning II from its home station at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, the unit deployed four jets and a complete package of support equipment to Naval Air Station Fallon to focus on the integration of the F-35C with the Fallon Range Training Complex and enable VFA-101 to develop and refine tactics, techniques and procedures for the F-35C with the Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center (NAWDC formerly the Naval Strike Air Warfare Center or NSAWC).