Air National Guard fighter wing preps for alert missions at Tyndall
Maintainers from the 179th Fighter Squadron, a subordinate unit of the 148th Fighter Wing out of Duluth, Minn., review technical data prior to preparing an aircrew for a mission Jan. 27, 2011, at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla. Airmen from the 148th FW are working with members of the 53rd Weapons Evaluation Group at Tyndall AFB for two weeks to train for their air sovereignty alert missions and to validate their newly-upgraded, Block 50 F-16s. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. John Hoffmann)