On Oct. 5, a flight of (at least four) F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft with 366th Fighter Wing returned to Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, after being deployed to an “undisclosed location” in Southwest Asia.
As already explained, that location is most probably Djibouti, from where an F-15E contingent has been (covertly) operating for more than 10 years in support of Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa as an Expeditionary Squadron of the 380th Expeditionary Operations Group, based at Al Dhafra, in the United Arab Emirates.
On their way back to the CONUS, the F-15E Strike Eagle made a stopover at Lajes Field in the Azores, where they were photographed by The Aviationist’s contributor André Inácio.
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Top Image (credit U.S. Air Force) shows the Strike Eagles with the 389th Fighter Squadron taxi to their shelters at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, Oct. 5, 2013.
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