Flying Tigers and Tarantulas: 418th FLTS conducts nighttime airborne operations training with Fort Irwin Soldiers

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  • By Giancarlo Casem
  • 412th Test Wing Public Affairs

The 418th Flight Test Squadron conducted a nighttime airborne operation training with Soldiers from the Tarantula Team, Operations Group, National Training Center out of Fort Irwin, California, June 4. The training event offered paratroopers, pilots and loadmasters an opportunity to hone vital warfighting skills and enhanced overall readiness and partnership between the military branches in an austere, remote and isolated environment of the Mojave Desert.

 

Soldiers from the Tarantula Team, Operations Group, National Training Center, out of Fort Irwin, California, prepare to board a C-17 assigned to the 418th Flight Test Squadron at Barsttow-Dagget Airport, June 5. (Air Force photo by James West)

 

Soldiers from the Tarantula Team, Operations Group, board a C-17 assigned to the 418th Flight Test Squadron at Barsttow-Dagget Airport, California, June 5. (Air Force photo by James West)

 

Soldiers from the Tarantula, Team, Operations Group, National Training Center at Fort Irwin, prepare to jump out of a C-17 assigned to the 418th Flight Test Squadron, out of Edwards Air Force Base, California, June 5. (Air Force photo by James West)

 

Maj. Richard Tyner, 418th Flight Test Squadron chief of training and C-17 test pilot, lands back at Edwards Air Force Base, California, following a nighttime airborne operation training with Soldiers from the Tarantula Team, Operations Group, National Training Center, Fort Irwin, June 5. (Air Force photo by James West)