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irmen currently deployed to Southwest Asia from Dyess AFB, Tex., to build bombs for the B-1Bs supporting the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing have produced nearly 400 munitions over the past couple of weeks, reports Capt. Teresa Sullivan. They work 24/7 in 12- to 15-hour shifts building, testing, inspecting, storing, and maintaining all the munitions needed by these strike aircraft in the combat theater. And, they’re doing it in sweltering hear, from 125-degree days to 90-degree nights.
An important U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry AWACS command and control plane was among the aircraft damaged in a March 27 Iranian missile and drone attack on Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, people familiar with the matter told Air & Space Forces Magazine.