Air National Guard Air Reserve Component Test Center activates F-35 Test Force

The Air National Guard Air Force Reserve Command Test Center (AATC) established an F-35 Combined Test Force at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, on May 1. AATC is responsible for operational and developmental flight test, tactics development, and evaluation for all Air Reserve Component (ARC) weapons systems. ARC pilots were already a part of the test community at Eglin and routinely fly developmental test (DT) and operational test (OT) missions with aircraft assigned to the Air Force Materiel Command’s 96th