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SCANG’s largest deployment since the summer of 2018 is part of expeditionary force rotation
Credit: U.S. Air National Guard photo by Lt. Col. Jim St.Clair, 169th Fighter Wing Public Affairs
U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon jets, assigned to the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing, prepare to depart McEntire Joint National Guard Base, South Carolina, to support an Air Expeditionary Force deployment to Prince Sultan Air Base Saudi Arabia, April 12, 2021. The 169th Fighter Wing will support U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) by preserving operational depth, staging joint forces and projecting overwhelming combat power in the region. This is the wing’s largest deployment since the summer of 2018 when they supported an Air Expeditionary Force rotation to Kuwait. ....

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