Colonel Arthur Tomassetti gives briefing on the latest with the F-35 Training Program to the Northwest Florida Military Officers Association (NWFMOA) lead by Ken Wright on July 6, 2011 at the Eglin Club, formerly the Eglin Officer’s Club. Colonel Tomassetti is the Vice Commander of the 33rd Fighter Wing, Air Education and Training Command, Eglin AFB, FL. The 33rd Fighter Wing serves as the home to the Joint Strike Fighter Integrated Training Center and provides pilot and maintenance training for the Navy, Marine, and Air Force, and approximately nine international partners. From this briefing, and the arrival of the first F-35 at Eglin AFB with many more showing up in the next couple of months, this program is alive and well and is in position to make a more significant impact on our area than the Army’s Special Forces. Remember, this plane is to remain in the military’s inventory for the next 50 years. That is a lot of training of pilots from the Air Forces, Navy, Marines, and all of the other cooperating countries in the years to come.
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