Field training division offers F-22 engine classes
The F-119-100 Pratt and Whitney engine, 16.5 feet long, weighs 5000 pounds, costs 10 million dollars. Only half of the power plant for a F-22 "Raptor" fighter. Tech Sgt. Dan Oden, origionally from Anchorage, returns as a instructor for the 32nd Training Squadron, Detachment 14, on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. Oden has 13 years experiance with engines for F-15 and the F-22 fighters.