Caption:
SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. -- Brig. Gen. Jeff Riemer climbs down from
the cockpit of the last new Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon shortly
after flying it here from the Lockheed Martin plant in Fort Worth on
March 18. General Riemer was the System Program Office director
when the contract for F-16s was awarded. While Lockheed will
continue to produce F-16s for international coalition partners, this
aircraft is the last of 2,231 F-16s produced for the Air Force.
The first delivery was in 1978. General Riemer is now the
director of operations at the Air Force Materiel Command headquarters
here. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Josef E. Cole III)
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