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News releaseHILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah -- About 260 people from Hill Air Force Base's fighter wings and a contingent of support personnel from different units on base deployed late last week in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
Airmen from the active duty 388th Fighter Wing and reserve 419th Fighter Wing will make up the 34th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, and will be deployed to the region for at least 120 days. The pilots, maintainers and support personnel will employ the F-16 Fighting Falcon in close-air support missions to protect coalition ground forces.
Hill regularly deploys in support of OEF missions. In July 2009, F-16 jets, pilots, maintainers and personnel assigned to the 421st Fighter Squadron and 421st Aircraft Maintenance Unit deployed to Bagram AB. It was the first-ever F-16 unit from the United States to deploy to that location.
About 20 Air Force reservists from the 419th FW volunteered to deploy alongside their active duty counterparts and will continue to do so during future 388th FW rotations in support of overseas contingency operations.
(Courtesy: Hill Air Force Base Public Affairs Office)
