USAF F-35As deploy to Lakenheath

THE US Air Force’s F-35A has made its first overseas training deployment, and the first to Europe by the US Lightning II. Six F-35As from the 34th Fighter Squadron (FS) ‘Rude Rams’, 388th Fighter Wing (FW) and the Air Force Reserve’s 466th FS, 419th F W, Hill Air Force Base, Utah arrived at RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk on April 15. Two more jets landed the following week. General Tod D Wolters, US Air Forces in Europe, Air Forces Africa commander said: