Sunday, November 02, 2008

Exercise Atlantic Thunder Set to Commence this Week

US Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps aviation units will be kicking off the Joint Large Force Exercise - Atlantic Thunder. The exercise apparently starts tomorrow morning (Nov 3) off the east coast of Florida in the Jax FACSFAC Opareas.

Early indications are that the following units will be involved in the exercise on Nov 3-7:

USAF 2BW, 132FW, 159FS
USMC VMFA-115 VMFA-224 VMFA-251 VMFA-533
USN VFA-86

More details as they become available.