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Two pilots both reached 1,000 flying hours in the F-117A when they landed at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, on 29 March. Lt. Col. Frank Rogers, operations director for Detachment 1, 53rd Test and Evaluations Group, and Maj. John Markle, assistant operations director for the 7th Combat Training Squadron, are the fourteenth and fifteenth Nighthawk pilots to reach this milestone. Lt. Col. Thomas Shoaf, the 417th Weapons Squadron commander, became the sixteenth Nighthawk pilot to join the 1,000-hour club on 27 April at Holloman. Roughly 500 pilots have flown the F117A, but few reach the thousand-hour mark because they normally serve only one three-year operational tour.
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