2004年4月29日，佛罗里达州，来自马里兰州安德鲁斯空军基地的F-16C参加“战斗射手”空空武器系统评估计划时飞越墨西哥湾，该机隶属于哥伦比亚空中国民警卫队第121战斗机中队，WSEP计划由位于佛罗里达州的延德尔空军基地的第53武器鉴定大队(WEG)所属的第83战斗机武器中队(FWS)负责实施。（A US Air Force (USAF) F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft assigned to the 121st Fighter Squadron (FS), District of Columbia Air National Guard (DCANG), armed with an AIM-9MA Sidewinder Missile and equipped with an airborne instrumentation pod, in flight over the Gulf of Mexico, while participating in Exercise COMBAT ARCHER, a air-to-air Weapons System Evaluation Program (WSEP) hosted by the 83rd Fighter Weapons Squadron located at Tyndall Air Force Base (AFB), Florida (FL).）