Vermont's F-35 Era Has Begun. Now What?

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Vermont's F-35 Era Has Begun. Now What?

开云体育 | By Ric Cengeri,

Mitch Wertlieb

Published September 23, 2019 at 2:35 PM EDT

Vermont's first two F-35s arrived at Burlington International Airport last week. A total of 20 will be based here and all should be in place by next summer.

On Thursday, two F-35 fighters landed at Burlington International Airport. Eighteen more will join them by next summer. And thus, the becomes the first Guard unit to house these jets. We'll take a look at the various aspects of the F-35s in Vermont.

Joining us to discuss the mission of the F-35s in Vermont are:

F-35 pilot Lt. Col. Nathan "Wiz" Graber.
Retired Air Force Col. Rosanne Greco, a critic of the F-35 mission in Vermont.
Investigative Reporter .
Col. David Smith, Commander, 158th Fighter Wing of the Vermont Air National Guard.

Broadcast live on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019 at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.

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Ric Cengeri

Ric was a producer for Vermont Edition and host of the VPR Cafe.

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Mitch Wertlieb

A graduate of NYU with a Master's Degree in journalism, Mitch has more than 20 years experience in radio news. He got his start as news director at NYU's college station, and moved on to a news director (and part-time DJ position) for commercial radio station WMVY on Martha's Vineyard. But public radio was where Mitch wanted to be and he eventually moved on to Boston where he worked for six years in a number of different capacities at member station WBUR...as a Senior Producer, Editor, and fill-in co-host of the nationally distributed Here and Now. Mitch has been a guest host of the national NPR sports program "Only A Game". He's also worked as an editor and producer for international news coverage with Monitor Radio in Boston.

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