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PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and the U.S. Navy Blue Angels are meeting for a rare joint training session in the Florida Panhandle.
The Pensacola News Journal (https://goo.gl/aF40r5 ) reports that the Thunderbirds landed Monday at "The Cradle of Naval Aviation." The eight Air Force F-16 pilots and more than 50 other officers and support staff from the Nevada-based Thunderbirds will join the six F/A-18 Blue Angels pilots and support staff at Naval Air Station Pensacola through Wednesday.
The U.S. military's two elite fighter-jet demonstration teams are seldom in the same place. Department of Defense guidelines say the teams must perform at the different air shows to cover as much recruiting territory as possible.
The two teams haven't been in Pensacola together for more than 15 years.
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