‘Double Down’ pilot passes 1,000 combat hours

“Mach” (center), 77th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter pilot, takes off from Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan Feb. 28, 2018. “Mach” logged his first combat sortie in 2011 in support of Operation Unified Protector, protecting our NATO allied partners in Libiya. Since then, he has double downed on two tours in Afghanistan and has compiled more than 1000 flying hours and 177 combat sorties during her career. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Divine Cox)

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