USFJ Commander takes a spin in Japan's new F-2 fighter

USFJ Commander takes a spin in Japan's new F-2 fighter

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?...&article=23171

{EXCERPT}, by Jennifer H. Svan, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition,
Thursday, July 8, 2004

MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan — The top U.S. military commander in Japan rode
Tuesday where no American has sat before — in the back seat of Japan’s
newest fighter aircraft, the F-2.

During a visit here, Lt. Gen. Thomas Waskow, commander of the 5th Air
Force and U.S. Forces Japan, teamed with Lt. Gen. Kunihiro Oda, head
of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s Air Defense Command, in the
first U.S.-Japan training mission involving F-2s and the American
F-16s from Misawa’s 13th Fighter Squadron.

“Not only was today fun, but it showed the potential” fo...

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