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Air Force Reserve Command officially activated its first F-22 Raptor unit, the 302nd Fighter Squadron, in ceremonies at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, on 3 October. The 302nd, which traces its lineage back to the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II, will serve as a Reserve Associate unit of the reactivated 477th Fighter Group. The second active duty F-22 squadron, the 525th Fighter Squadron, was activated at Elmendorf on 29 October. The 525th, which formed in 1942, moved around Europe in its early days but settled at Bitburg AB, Germany, where it stayed for thirty-five years before being inactivated several years ago. Elmendorf will eventually receive forty F-22s to be split between the two active duty squadrons.
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