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The wing is deploying more than a dozen F-16 fighter jets and close to 500 personnel (pilots, maintenance specialists and support staff) for about four months.
This is the wing’s largest deployment since Operation Desert Storm and the fourth major deployment of its F-16s since 2002 (when the wing deployed to Qatar in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and flew more than 200 combat missions in the early days of the Afghanistan Campaign). In 2003, the 169th deployed to Qatar in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and flew more than 400 combat missions. Then, in 2010, elements of the 169th deployed again to support operations in Iraq.
| Date Taken: | 04.08.2012 |
| Date Posted: | 04.09.2012 18:02 |
| Category: | Package |
| Video ID: | 141367 |
| VIRIN: | 120408-F-QX261-001 |
| Filename: | DOD_100363299 |
| Length: | 00:00:55 |
| Location: | EASTOVER, SOUTH CAROLINA, US |
| Downloads: | 19 |
| High-Res. Downloads: | 19 |
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