Eight Viper pilot students graduated from the 8th Fighter Squadron’s first F-16 Basic Course, May 4, 2019, at Club Holloman on Holloman Air Force Base, N.M. On Aug. 4, 2017, the 8th Fighter Squadron was activated under the 54th Fighter Group – 49 years after being assigned to Holloman AFB in July 1968, and nearly eighty years since the squadron’s induction on Nov. 20, 1940. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Kindra Stewart)