[yarddog]

My Niece used to date a pilot from Eglin’s 33rd Fighter Wing.

I was talking to him at my Parents house and mentioned they had interviewed a Langley pilot on TV the day before. This was not long after Desert Storm.

He said all the pilots called the First Fighter Wing, the Worst Fighter Wing. He said they shot down exactly one plane during the war. I think he said the Eglin planes shot down 23.

[oldbill]

There were no F-22s in the first Gulf War.

[Daaave]

In August, 1990, in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, the Nomads (The 33rd Fighter Wing.) deployed 24 F-15s to Saudi Arabia in support of Operation DESERT SHIELD. On January 17, 1991, as Operation DESERT STORM began, the Nomads scored the first aerial victory of the war, finishing the conflict with 16 kills, the most of any allied unit in the conflict.