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Air Force Soon Expects To Announce Two More F-35 Air National Guard Bases

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, September 19th, 2017

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Air Force Soon Expects To Announce Two More F-35 Air National Guard Bases

Maintenance staff inspect one of the 10 Luke AFB F-35s sent to Nellis AFB for a training deployment, April 15, 2015. Photo: U.S. Air Force.

In the next month or two the Air Force expects to decide on two additional locations in the U.S. to base F-35s with Air National Guard units, which would be on top of a decision last year to base the guard’s first F-35s with the Vermont Air National Guard.The Air Force is studying five possible locations and will select two for the next F-35 Air National Guard F-35 deployments, Air Force Gen. Joseph Lengyel, chief of the National Guard Bureau,…

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