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Airman meets his newborn for the first time after deployment in Saudi Arabia Emily Correll
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At 12:23 p.m. on Sunday around 300 airmen from the McEntire Joint National Guard base landed on American soil for the first time in three months. One, however, had an extra special surprise awaiting him.
The men and women from the 169th Fighter Wing had been deployed in Saudi Arabia serving our country. The McEntire hangar was full of happiness, tears, love and joy as hundreds greeted their missed loved ones.
“We’re waiting for my daddy, said Leslie Gallman, I’m so excited because we’ve been waiting for him a very long time”
10 Approximately 300 Airmen and a contingent of F-16CJ Fighting Falcon aircraft from the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing have returned home after a successful three month deployment to Prince Sultan Air Base (PSAB), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
While deployed to PSAB, the 169th Fighter Wing’s “Swamp Foxes” were attached to the 378th Air Expeditionary Wing and supported U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) by boosting defensive capabilities against potential threats in the region. During this expeditionary force rotation, the South Carolina Air National Guard (SCANG) also simultaneously supported three major operations including Operation Inherent Resolve, Operation Spartan Shield, and Operation Freedom Sentinel. This was the SCANG’s largest deployment since the summer of 2018 when they supported an Air Expeditionary Force rotation to Kuwait.
10 This isn’t your father’s rapid runway repair. Eight Airmen from the 169th Civil Engineer Squadron (169CES) joined Pacific Air Forces and U.S. Navy engineers to participate in an Expedient and Expeditionary Airfield Damage Repair (E-ADR) Joint Capability Technology Demonstration at McEntire Joint National Guard Base (JNGB), South Carolina April 21-28, 2021. The demonstration simulated the rapid repair of a battle damaged runway. Swamp Fox engineers were joined by engineers from the 36th Engineer Squadron, Anderson Air Force Base, Guam, and the 647th Civil Engineer Squadron, Joint Base Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, plus engineers from U.S. Navy Mobile Construction Battalion 133, Gulfport, Mississippi to field test the ‘just enough, just-in-time’ repair capability on a decommissioned runway at McEntire JNGB. The U.S. Air Force Civil Engineer Center’s (AFCEC) Expedient and Expeditionary Airfield Damage Repair concept uses local materials and minimal manpower and equ