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Lt. Col. Michael Brill, an Air Force Reserve Command pilot with the 419th Fighter Wing at Hill AFB, Utah, became the first pilot to record 6,000 flying hours in the F-16 during a combat mission out of Balad AB, Iraq, on 2 May. He was also the first pilot to reach 4,000 flying hours in the F-16 (August 1998) and the first to record 5,000 F-16 flight hours (November 2002). Brill has accumulated 226 combat flying hours and has flown more than fifty combat sorties. Brill, a nineteen-year member of the 419th FW, led the first F-16 strike into Afghanistan in Operation Enduring Freedom. Six thousand hours equates to 250 twenty-four hour days in the cockpit.
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