From Byrd Field two F-16C Fighting Falcons with the Virginia Air National Guard's 192nd Fighter Wing (FW) prepare for take-off on a training mission in support of Operation NOBLE EAGLE. The 192nd FW is located just outside of Richmond at Byrd Field in Sandston, Virginia. NOBLE EAGLE is a partial mobilization of the reserves for homeland defense and civil support missions in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 at the New York World Trade Center and the Pentagon