Aug. 21, 2025 125th Fighter Wing Receives First Permanently Assigned F-35 The 500th F-35A Lightning II built for the U.S. Air Force arrived at the Florida Air National Guard’s 125th Fighter Wing, located at Jacksonville Air National Guard Base, Florida, on July 9, 2025. This jet is one of the unit’s first three permanently assigned F-35A fighter jets featuring the wing’s
May 22, 2025 Changing Parts: 125th LRS Embraces F-35A Conversion The Florida Air National Guard's 125th Logistics Readiness Squadron continues efforts to transition from the F-15 Eagle to the F-35A Lightning II fighter jet.
March 4, 2025 Thunder and Lightning: 125th Fighter Wing Welcomes F-35A Lightning II, strengthening national defense The Florida Air National Guard officially entered the fifth-generation fighter era with the arrival of its first F-35A Lightning II on March 4, 2025. The milestone makes the 125th Fighter Wing, known as ‘the Thunder’, the fourth Air National Guard (ANG) unit to receive the advanced fighter, marking
Aug. 15, 2023 A Beloved Eagle Retires On Aug. 14, 2023, Maj. Brannon Ferguson, a pilot at the 159th Fighter Squadron, retired an F-15C Eagle by flying the jet to the "boneyard" at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona.
Aug. 30, 2022 New air-to-ground munitions mark historic growth for FLANG The 125th Fighter Wing received its first inert training munitions as part of its historic air-to-ground mission addition for the upcoming conversion to the F-35 Lightning II, Aug. 24, 2022.
Feb. 8, 2017 Florida Guardsmen Fly With Combat Ready F-35s Airman 1st Class Chris O’Toole was not prepared for just how cold and thin the air at the 388th Fighter Wing on Hill Air Force Base, Utah, would get. The base spreads across a valley wedged between the mountains that send constant cold gusts right down the flight line. As an F-16 Falcon crew chief,