June 22 (UPI) -- Shaw Air Force Base's F-16's will test their counter-air operations with Vermont Air National Guard's F-35s in an exercise that starts this week.
Training will begin Wednesday, when a small contingent of Shaw AFB's 20th Fighter Wing's 55th Fighter Squadron arrives at the Vermont Air National Guard base, with six F-16s and a C-130 Hercules, the159th Fighter Wing of the Vermont Air National Guard said in a statement.