USAF’s Pacific F-35A deployment gathers pace

One of the recent arrivals at Kadena, F-35A 14-5105 ‘HL’ lost a panel during a training flight over the Pacific Ocean about 65 miles east of Okinawa on November 30. Arnold ten Pas THE US Air Force’s first operational overseas deployment of the F-35A is up and running at Kadena Air Base, Japan, the service announced on November 21, 2017. Twelve Lightning IIs and more than 300 airmen from the 388th and 419th Fighter Wings at Hill Air Force Base,