National Guard conducts Carolina Thunder 2014 [Image 6 of 9]

EASTOVER, SOUTH CAROLINA, UNITED STATES

11.15.2014

Photo by Airman Megan Floyd 

169th Fighter Wing

Lt. Col. Michael Ferrario, F-16 fighter pilot with the South Carolina Air National Guard, completes a pre-flight check as Airman 1st Class Josh Crout, a crew chief with the 169th Maintenance Group, waits to marshal the plane onto the runway. South Carolina National Guard, along with North Carolina and Georgia National Guard units conducted “Carolina Thunder 14”, a drill weekend, joint training exercise Nov. 15, 2014. More than 30 aircraft participated in the mass take-off from McEntire Joint National Guard Base, Eastover, S.C. Units conducted air and ground operations at the Savannah River Site in Allendale, S.C. The S.C. Air National Guard 169th Fighter Wing’s F-16 Fighting Falcons joined AH-64D Apaches, CH-47 Chinooks, UH-60 Black Hawks and more than 100 Infantry Soldiers from the S.C. Army National Guard to train with Apaches from the N.C. Army National Guard and the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSATRS) and Joint Terminal Training Center (JTAC) from the Georgia Air National Guard in a collective force-on-force, enemy suppression and assault mission. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Amn Megan Floyd/Released)

• Date Taken: 11.15.2014
• Date Posted: 11.16.2014 12:39
• Photo ID: 1659484
• VIRIN: 141115-Z-VD276-008
• Resolution: 4928x3264
• Size: 7.16 MB
• Location: EASTOVER, SOUTH CAROLINA, US