A Michigan highway along Lake Superior became a temporary landing strip for military aircraft—including an A-10 Thunderbolt II “Warthog”—during an Air National Guard (ANG) training exercise, which military officials described as “historic.”
The Michigan ANG commandeered a 9,000-foot stretch of state highway M-28 outside of Munising as part of the three-day “Northern Agility 22-1” training exercise focused on preparing for combat operations in austere environments. The June 29 event represented the first integrated combat turns, or rearming and refueling of a running jet, on a public U.S. highway, according to the ANG.
