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The base received around two jets every month, immediately integrating the new aircraft as they arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to officials, \u201cfull warfighting capability\u201d describes a status of fully trained pilots and maintainers, necessary support equipment and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2019\/12\/21\/delivery-completes-f-35a-inventory-for-hill-air-force-base\/\" target=_blank>\u201cfull complement\u201d of jets<\/a>. In December 2019, the base achieved its goal of equipping each squadron with \u201c24 primary assigned aircraft and six backups,\u201d the Air Force said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To display how far Hill has come, the wings on Monday conducted a massive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/11\/20\/hill-air-force-base-launches-record-number-of-f-35s\/\" target=_blank>\u201celephant walk,\u201d<\/a> launching 52 F-35s from multiple squadrons in rapid succession. While the combat exercise took place in the midst of a tense standoff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2019\/11\/07\/airmen-f-35s-return-to-hill-air-force-base-from-mideast-deployment\/\" target=_blank>between the U.S. and Iran<\/a>, Hill said in another release Monday that the exercise had been planned for months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fighter wings sought to steadily integrate the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2019\/05\/11\/air-force-to-shift-florida-weapons-squadron-to-hill-afb-in-utah\/\" target=_blank>new weapons systems<\/a>, beginning with training \u201ca core of pilots\u201d who had some previous F-35A experience, the release said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe didn\u2019t have a majority of pilots who had been training and carrying out F-35A tactics for 15 or 20 years,\u201d 388th commander Col. 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