Page 17 - Air Forces Monthly - September 2017

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‘Red Devils’ Hornets train at Hyakuri

Above: Two VMFA-232 F/A-18C Hornets taxi in after arriving at Hyakuri Air Base, Japan, on July 7
for exercises as part of the Aviation Training Relocation programme. USMC/Lance Cpl Mason Roy Adrian M Balch
US MARINE Corps operational readiness and engaged manoeuvres,
Marine Fighter Attack interoperability between active air defence and Fitter-killer Super Hornet
Squadron (VMFA) 232 ‘Red US and Japanese forces. air interdiction with the
Devils’ has carried out a The ATRs also reduce resident JASDF RF-4E/ AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS was not 168914/’AJ-304’
14-day Aviation Training overall noise impact EJs of the 501st Hikotai. George H W Bush’s arrival as previously reported,
Relocation programme by dispersing bilateral The ‘Red Devils’ returned in UK waters confirmed but 168912/’AJ-302’, flown
deployment to the Japan jet fighter training of to Marine Corps Air the identity of the Strike by LCDR Michael Tremel.
Air Self-Defense Force’s US forces across many Station Iwakuni on July 24, Fighter Squadron (VFA) 87 An Su-22 kill marking
(JASDF’s) Hyakuri Air Base. different JASDF bases. where they are currently ‘Golden Warriors’ F/A-18E has now been applied
The unit’s F/A-18Cs During the training – stationed as part of that downed a Syrian Arab below the canopy.
arrived at the base on July the squadron’s first visit the Unit Deployment Air Force Su-22M-4 over The Super Hornet and
7 and completed their to Hyakuri – VMFA-232 Program, away from northern-central Syria its pilot were on deck
training under the ATR on conducted Red Air and their normal home on June 18 (see Hot skies when the carrier dropped
July 21. It gave them the Blue Air training, involving base at MCAS Miramar, over Syria, August, p6). anchor near Stokes Bay
opportunity to increase basic fighter and section- California. Dave Allport The F/A-18E in question in the Solent on July 27.

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