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CommentsAbout 120 members of McChord Air Force Base’s 10th Airlift Squadron are scheduled to return today from a four-month deployment to the Middle East.
The airmen flew 3,400 missions in their C-17 Globemaster III cargo jets, totaling more than 8,100 hours in the air from Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, and Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait. They moved more than 150,000 passengers and 117 million pounds of cargo to Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a McChord release.
The squadron also transported 76 critical patients to Germany, did 144 combat airdrop missions and delivered 3,500 bundles of material to remote forward operating bases in Afghanistan, according to the release. The airdrops helped reduce the need for supply convoys, which often become targets of roadside bombs.
Scott Fontaine, The News Tribune
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