20140530_Spangdahlem

Several A-10C Thunderbolt II Warthog's from the 124th FW's 190th Fighter Squadron " Skullbangers" deployed from Gowen Field Air National Guard Base, Boise, Idaho to Europe (Spangdahlem Air Base - ETAD.They took part in the Army Exercise Combined Resolve II from which they flew daily missions from Spangdahlem Air Base. "Exercise Combined Resolve II is a U.S. Army Europe-directed multinational exercise involving 15 NATO and European partner nations in the Grafenwöhr and Hohenfels area from May 15 to June 30," said Christian Marquardt, Joint Multinational Training Command public affairs spokesman from Emporia, Kan. "This is an interoperability exercise working on partnership tasks, because this is the way we are going to fight in the future." The nations involved in the exercise are Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and the United States.
We visited Spangdahlem on May 30th, to see them for the last time in action in Europe. Shots were taken in the morning for take-off (unfortunately with drizzle and haze) and afternoon on the approach side of RWY05.