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Over 300 active duty and Reserve Airmen of the 34th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron returned Oct. 5 from a four-month deployment to Joint Base Balad, Iraq. This homecoming marks the close of 400-straight days at Balad for the 388th FW and 419th FW. From August 2007 to October 2008, the wings’ fighter squadrons deployed back-to-back, flying over 5,000 combat missions and 20,000 hours. During 24-hour-a-day operations, they responded to over 3,000 requests for air support and provided precision-guided, air-to-ground weapons in over 200 engagements. (U.S. Air Force by Master Sgt. Ted Robinson)


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Over 300 active duty and Reserve Airmen of the 34th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron returned Oct. 5 from a four-month deployment to Joint Base Balad, Iraq. This homecoming marks the close of 400-straight days at Balad for the 388th FW and 419th FW. From August 2007 to October 2008, the wings’ fighter squadrons deployed back-to-back, flying over 5,000 combat missions and 20,000 hours. During 24-hour-a-day operations, they responded to over 3,000 requests for air support and provided precision-guided, air-to-ground weapons in over 200 engagements. (U.S. Air Force by Master Sgt. Ted Robinson)

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Airman Juan Rivas, Senior Airman Darion White and Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Kalsbeek, 34th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron load crew members, prepare to equip an F-35A with a GBU-12 laser-guided bomb at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, Feb. 23, 2016. (U.S. Air Force photo by R. Nial Bradshaw)
Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Kalsbeek and Airman Juan Rivas, 34th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron load crew members, prepare to equip an F-35A with a GBU-12 laser-guided bomb at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, Feb. 23, 2016. (U.S. Air Force photo by R. Nial Bradshaw)
Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Kalsbeek and Airman Juan Rivas, 34th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron load crew members, prepare to equip an F-35A with a GBU-12 laser-guided bomb at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, Feb. 23, 2016. (U.S. Air Force photo by R. Nial Bradshaw)
Lt. Col. George Watkins, 34th Fighter Squadron commander, drops a GBU-12 laser-guided bomb from an F-35A at the Utah Test and Training Range Feb. 25, 2016. The 34th Fighter Squadron is the Air Force's first combat unit to employ munitions from the F-35A. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jim Haseltine)
Members of the 4th Weapons Squadron load SUU-65/B tactical munitions dispensers onto an aircraft as they ready it for a mission during Operation Desert Shield. (U.S. Air Force photo)
A member of the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing waits with his unit for a flight to Saudi Arabia to take part in Operation Desert Shield. (U.S. Air Force photo)
A ground crewman guides a 388th Tactical Fighter Wing F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft onto the taxiway. The 388th TFW deployed to Saudi Arabia to take part in Operation Desert Shield. Mounted on the aircraft's left outboard wing pylon is an AN/ALQ-131 Electronic Countermeasures (ECM) pod; mounted on the side of the engine intake is a Low Altitude Navigation, Targeting Infrared Night (LANTIRN) navigation pod. (U.S. Air Force photo)
An F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft of the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing flies out on a mission during Operation Desert Storm. The aircraft is armed with AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles and Mark 84 2,000-pound bombs. (U.S. Air Force photo)
An F-16C Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft from the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, is prepared for a strike against targets in Iraq and Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm. (U.S. Air Force photo)
Tech. Sgt. Tony Tesori, right, weather forecaster, Detachment 6, 17th Weather Squadron, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, briefs aircrews on local and Iraqi weather conditions during Operation Desert Storm. (U.S. Air Force photo)
U.S. Air Force Gen. Hawk Carlisle, commander of Air Combat Command, speaks at the arrival ceremony for the F-35 Lightning II at Hill Air Force Base, Utah Oct. 14. The ceremony marked the formal beginning of F-35 operations at Hill, and commemorated the arrival of the first combat-coded F-35 aircraft which arrived at Hill Sept. 2. (U.S. Air Force photo by R. Nial Bradshaw/Released)
U.S. Air Force Gen. Hawk Carlisle, commander of Air Combat Command, speaks at the arrival ceremony for the F-35 Lightning II at Hill Air Force Base, Utah Oct. 14. The ceremony marked the formal beginning of F-35 operations at Hill, and commemorated the arrival of the first combat-coded F-35 aircraft which arrived at Hill Sept. 2. (U.S. Air Force photo by R. Nial Bradshaw/Released)
Master Sgt. Ted Robinson
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