HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Though they’re not alone, 2020 was a year unlike any other for the Air Force’s only combat-ready F-35 unit.An amped up deployment rotation was intensified by the arrival of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Each of the 388th Fighter Wing’s three F-35 squadrons, ...
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — For a group of people whose ultimate purpose is to fight and win wars, Hill Air Force Base has its fair share of warm-hearted Christmas softies.In the days leading up to the 2020 Yuletide, several outfits at Hill were either recipients or donors of some exceptional ...
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — For the Air Force’s F-35 Aerial Demonstration Team, their inaugural season at Hill Air Force Base in 2020 was unlike any other, to say the least.In the latter days of 2019, when the Air Force announced that the team charged with showing off the F-35 would be moving to ...
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — It’s a scenario they hope never happens in the real world, but officials from Hill Air Force Base say the installation’s F-35 wing is ready to intercept enemy aircraft in the event of a stateside emergency.Micah Garbarino, spokesperson with Hill’s 388th Fighter ...
LAYTON — More than two years ago, after a multi-year process of fundraising, planning and eventually building, an immense monument honoring the more than 58,000 soldiers who died in Vietnam was erected in Layton.And now, in the same section of Layton Commons Park, the canine counterparts of ...
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — There’s no precise data on this, but of the hundreds of fighter pilots who have come through Hill Air Force Base over the years, it’s probably safe to assume only one of them has been able to see his family’s farm from the cockpit.But oftentimes, when Lt. Col. ...
