I drove up and down the flight line for an hour just looking at all the jets," recalls Lt. Col. James Whitmore, the operations group commander. "The display was impressive.

With all pilots wearing night vision goggles, the unit flew a four-ship night flight to launch two AIM-120Cs. The occasions marked the first time any operational fighter unit fired an AIM-120 at night using NVGs.

The largest contingent of F-16s, about seventy, can be found at Aviano Air Base in northern Italy. In fact, Allied Force has made Aviano home to the largest single Air Force combat wing ever assembled at one base.